Netflix Drama Downtime Debuts With Mayu Matsuoka And Riisa Naka As Rival Doctors
The series brings Netflix's run of dramas about concealed industries, from the adult video business in Naked Director to real estate fraud in Tokyo Swindlers, to the cosmetic surgery field and the people who pursue beauty within it.
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Netflix's Downtime began worldwide streaming on September 17 with all eight episodes released at once. Mayu Matsuoka stars as plastic surgeon Fumi Numata, with Riisa Naka as cosmetic surgeon Rin Toyama, who directs Toyama Beauty Clinic. A character relationship chart and visuals for seven key figures were published. The series is directed by Yuki Saito, written by Junya Ikegami, and its soundtrack by Yudai Bando went on digital distribution the same day.
The show sets two doctors against each other. Fumi Numata is a skilled plastic surgeon carrying family debt and a debt collector's attention; Rin Toyama runs Toyama Beauty Clinic and recruits her. Their disagreement over what it means to be a doctor drives the story.
The released visuals cover seven figures and pair each with words drawn from their beliefs and private resolve. Around the two leads sit the clinic's founder and his wife, its vice director, nursing chief, and advisory lawyer, along with rival clinic director Sotaro Ando and a list of patients whose visits unsettle the plot.
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