A decade-long love story of two younger males is the topic of Netflix‘s newest Asian sequence, Soul Mate.

The drama stars Japanese actor Hayato Isomura and Korean singer-actor Okay Taec-yeon from boyband 2PM, and can observe their enduring relationship regardless of the gap. It begins when Rye Narutaki (Isomura), who left the whole lot in Japan, is saved by a boxer named Johan Hwang (Okay) in a international land.

Filming has taken place in Berlin, Seoul and Tokyo, with Shunki Hashizume (Scroll, Extra Than Phrases) the author and director. The sequence was developed following a dialog between Hashizume and government producer Dai Ota.

“We arrived on the final future story, the place individuals from completely different cultures and backgrounds meet in a international land and their lives intersect,” mentioned Ota. “The story, crammed with life’s joys and pains, mixed with the distinctive performances from Isomura and Taec-yeon, will heat the hearts of viewers.” 

The sequence is the second Japan-Korea collaboration of 2024 for Netflix. As we revealed a month in the past, the streamer can be adapting 2011 French movie Les Émotifs Anonymes (Romantics Nameless), with Shun Oguri (Godzilla vs. Kong), Han Hyo-Joo (Shifting), Yuri Nakamura and Jin Akanishi starring. A Korean manufacturing home, Yong Movies, is making the romantic drama in Japan.

Korea and Japan stay central to Netflix’s technique in Asia, with each nations within the midst of worldwide cultural booms — Korea by means of Okay-drama and the Okay-pop world Okay hails from and Japan by means of anime.