Netflix has set a global premiere date of September 17 forPlastic Beautyand released the series’ teaser trailer alongside 23 additional cast members joining leads Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka.
The series unfolds against Japan’s ongoing debate over beauty standards — a culture increasingly open to diversity in appearance, yet still fueling one of its fastest-growing industries: cosmetic surgery. Netflix and the creative team spent months researching that world firsthand, and it shows in how honestly the series treats both the glamour and the fallout.
At the center of it all is Fumi Numata (Mayu Matsuoka,Shoplifters), a gifted surgeon forced out of her hospital after an emergency operation, and Rin Tohyama (Riisa Naka,Alice in Borderland), a celebrity cosmetic surgeon who believes beauty itself can heal. When Fumi joins Rin’s clinic to expose the industry’s dark side, the two collide over sharply opposing ideas of what medicine and beauty are for.
The new cast brings that world to life. Shotaro Mamiya plays Rui Komiya, the clinic’s striking vice director; Minami Tanaka is head nurse Nanami Todoroki; Hiromi Nagasaku plays Fumi’s mother, Taeko Numata; and Atsuro Watabe plays Arata Tohyama, a powerful figure in the cosmetic surgery world.
They’re joined by Riku Hagiwara, Mijika Nagai, Daichi Watanabe, Reiji (of the comedy duo Nakagawake), Kavka Shishido, Yu Shirota, Naosumi Masuko, Sosei Takeda, Rika Izumi, Kentaro Tamura, Eisuke Sasai, Hana Amano, Hina Kagei, Naoko Ken, Kayo Noro, Rin Furukawa, Yumi Adachi, Shunsuke Kazama and Kōki.
Special effects artist Amazing JIRO (Straight to Hell) led a team that custom-designed each patient’s arc — the “before,” the bruised and swollen “downtime,” and the eventual “after” — for every actor in the cast. The score comes from Yuta Bandoh (Kaiju No. 8,Sheep in the Box), joined by rising composer MON/KU and film composer Sayaka Aoki, giving the clinic’s world its own unsettled rhythm.
The teaser trailer leans into the psychology of transformation — patients chasing an ideal self, a clinic that trades in reinvention, and two doctors whose convictions about healing put them on a collision course. It’s less about the procedures than the hunger driving them, and whether that hunger is hope or something closer to a curse.
Plastic Beautyis directed by Yuki Saito (Unmet: A Neurosurgeon’s Diary), written by Junya Ikegami (The Queen of Villains), and produced by Harue Miyake (Tokyo Swindlers) and Katsuhito Motegi.
Plastic Beautypremieres September 17, only on Netflix.
AboutPlastic BeautyCast: Mayu Matsuoka, Riisa Naka
Shotaro Mamiya, Minami Tanaka, Riku Hagiwara, Mijika Nagai, Daichi Watanabe,
Reiji Nakagawake, Kavka Shishido, Yu Shirota, Naozumi Masuko,Sose Takeda, Rika Izumi,
Kentaro Tamura, Eisuke Sasai, Hana Amano, Hina Kagei, Naoko Ken, Kayo Noro,
Rin Furukawa, Yumi Adachi, Shunsuke Kazama, Koki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Atsuro Watabe
Directed by: Yuki Saito
Produced by: Harue Miyake, Katsuhito Mogi
Written by: Junya Ikegami
Main Theme by: Yuta Bandoh
Music by: MON/KU, Sayaka Aoki
Cinematographer: Yohei Tateishi
Lighting Designer: Jin Kobayashi
Production Designer: Yoko Sagae
Sound Recordist: Toru Nishiyama
Sound Designer: Yoshifumi Kureishi
Editor: Kazuma Yano
Special Make-up Direction: Amazing JIRO
VFX Supervisor: Koji Nozaki
Schedule: Katsutoshi Hirabayashi
First Assistant Director: Daisuke Ajiki
Planning Producer: Shin-ichi Kudo
Production by: K2 Pictures
Presented by: Netflix
