Atelier (TV series)
Atelier (Japanese title Underwear) is a Japanese web television drama developed by Fuji Television for Netflix.[1][2] It is a coming of age drama set in a small high-class lingerie design house called Emotion, which is based in Tokyo's Ginza district. The drama centres around Mayuko Tokita, a new employee, and her struggle to find her place at Emotion.[3][4]
Central to that struggle is her relationship with Mayumi Nanjo the creator and owner of Emotion, who has been compared to Anna Wintour, an editor of American Vogue.[5]
Cast and Characters
- Mirei Kiritani as Mayuko Tokita a "fabric geek" who joins Emotion in the first episode.
- Mao Daichi as Mayumi Nanjo, the founder and president of Emotion. She eschews mass production in favour of one-off and limited production.
- Mayuko Kawakita as Yuri Kouno, best friend of Mayuko who works for a wedding dress company and started work the same day as Mayuko.
- Wakana Sakai as Mizuki Nishizawa, a senior lingerie designer at Emotion.
- Ken Kaito as Jin Saruhashi, the office manager. Cool on the outside, he joined Emotion because he was passionate about the way Nanjo did business.
- Maiko as Fumikaoru Iida, a senior lingerie designer at Emotion, who leaves the company to join one of their competitors.
- Masako Chiba as Reiko Tanaka, Nanjo's most trusted employee, who also takes Mayuko under her wing when she first arrives at the company.
- Dori Sakurada as Himeji Sousuke, assistant to Jin.
- Nicole Ishida as Sarikoromo Machida, a down on her luck model, who Mayuko befriends. Later in season one, Machida finds success as a supermodel.
References
- ↑ "Mirei Kiritani Stars in Netflix Japan & Fuji TV's "Underwear"". Crunchy Roll.
- ↑ "桐谷美玲主演ドラマ世界配信へ、Netflix×フジで下着業界の裏側描".
- ↑ "Netflix to Deliver Fuji TV Original Content". Japan Today.
- ↑ "Mirei Kiritani Stars in Netflix Japan & Fuji TV's "Underwear"".
- ↑ "Netflix Japan's Original Series 'Underwear' is 'The Devil Wears Prada' of Lingerie Design".
- ↑ "Atelier". IMDB. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ↑ "Underwear". Model Press. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/07/15-1/mirei-kiritani-stars-in-netflix-japan-fuji-tvs-underwear
- http://www.narinari.com/Nd/20150732658.html (Japanese)
- http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/fuji-tv-to-produce-original-content-for-netflix
- http://decider.com/2015/11/13/underwear-netflix-japan/
- http://mdpr.jp/underwear
External links
- Official website
- Official website (Japanese)
- Atelier at the Internet Movie Database
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