Netflix has signed Tokyo Swindlers director Hitoshi One to an unique five-year deal.
The settlement means Netflix will produce and distribute all of One’s upcoming collection and movies for the interval. The provide got here two weeks after Tokyo Swindlers launched on the streamer, One revealed.
“I used to be stunned at how shortly I responded, however I spotted that I used to be drawn to the distribution medium, a style that isn’t but as established as movie and TV dramas,” he added.
Drama collection Tokyo Swindlers follows a gaggle of actual property scammers, who try to drag off a 10B yen rip-off with out getting caught. It debuted on Netflix in July and hit the International Prime 10 (non-English) chart, whereas holding the #1 spot within the Prime 10 chart for Japan for six weeks straight.
Netflix’s Vice President of Content material in Japan, Kaata Sakamoto mentioned: “Mr. One has generously demonstrated his artistic skills in Tokyo Swindlers, an exciting story with quirky characters filled with humanity. The collection has change into one of many most-watched reveals in Japan on Netflix. By Mr. One’s one-of-a-kind perspective, we are going to uncover tales which have but to be informed and ship leisure that may captivate viewers around the globe.”
One made his directorial debut in 2011 with the theatrical model of Moteki, which received the Japan Academy Award for Most In style Title. He later received the Greatest Director Award for Bakuman, in addition to the Grand Prize within the TV class on the Galaxy Awards for Elpis: Hope or Catastrophe.
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Following a interval throughout which many worldwide creators landed unique offers with Netflix, such agreements have change into comparatively unusual, making right now’s deal all of the extra notable.
