Mousetrap Tops Netflix Non-English TV Chart In Second Week
A second-week climb to No. 1 across 45 countries gives the Field Mouse adaptation the kind of chart durability that Netflix's week-one debuts often fail to hold, and it comes with no English-language version of the source webtoon available.
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The webtoon-based live-action series Mousetrap reached No. 1 on Netflix's global Top 10 chart for non-English TV shows for the week of August 31 through September 6, up from No. 5 in its debut week. Netflix rankings released September 8 put the series at 4.4 million views and a Top 10 spot in 45 countries. It adapts the webtoon Field Mouse.
The series is based on Field Mouse, the webtoon Ludovico serialized from 2017 to 2020, and follows reclusive novelist Moon-jae, whose life is upended by a figure known only as "Field Mouse." Moon-jae then teams with No-ja, a ruthless loan shark who once pursued him.
Hong-sun Kim directs. Jun-yeol Ryu plays Moon-jae, Kyung-gu Sul plays Noja, and Kyoo-hyung Lee plays detective Sun-yong. The story draws on the Korean folktale "The Rat That Ate Fingernails," about a rat that turns human after eating someone's fingernails.
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