Netflix Sets December 17 Debut For Live-Action Quiztopia Series
The series commits Netflix to a full eight-episode adaptation of a 1990s Morning manga, with the dystopian quiz premise and an ensemble cast built around Takayuki Yamada as host KK.
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Netflix will premiere its eight-episode live-action series Quiztopia on December 17, adapting Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato's National Quiz manga. A teaser trailer and additional cast were revealed: Masahiro Takashima as Commander Murakoshi, Eiko Koike as producer Shoko Kamijo, Riko Ishida as Marii, Kana Kurashina as Ayako, Koji Seto as Seiji Nanbara, and Renji Ishibashi as Prime Minister Takeshi Gokumazawa. Takayuki Yamada plays host KK. Teruyuki Yoshida directs and co-writes with Maggy.
The series adapts Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato's National Quiz, which ran in Kodansha's Morning magazine from 1993 to 1995 and was collected in four volumes. The story is set in an alternate Japan where a national quiz show holds governing authority, and any surviving contestant can have a wish granted by the government. Eliminated contestants face forced labor that the broadcast treats as entertainment. Takayuki Yamada plays KK, the show's host, who comes into contact with a group plotting to bring Quiztopia down.
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