Welcome Live Action: streaming news for June (15-06-2024)

Having the curiosity to see some Japanese drama or film… but not knowing how or where to find the subtitles in Italian.
Relaxing for a moment on the sofa with the desire to watch something on TV, having all the possible streaming platforms available… without even knowing what you’re looking for, in truth.
Questions that we have probably all asked ourselves on more than one occasion, sometimes dismissing them with the idea that “watching Japanese and Asian dramas is too complicated, I give up.”

With the increasingly widespread advent of streaming opportunities, instead, tune in to Japanese dramas and films it has never been easiernor had there ever been one like this before in our country wide possibility to range between titles and genres of very different fields.
Indeed, of series broadcast in conjunction with the Japanese television broadcast.

This is why you will find here a periodic appointment dedicated to all live action newsthat is to say Japanese dramas and films and to a lesser extent Asians, arriving in Italy on the most common online streaming platforms: no more doubts, since we will provide the ad directly update you periodically on the new titles of Netflix, Rakuten Viki, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+but also structures such as MyMoviesOne (containing Fareastream), RaiPlay And NHK World.

We hope that a column structured in this way can be a valid help and an essential reference, both as a reminder of “what to see” and for new titles to look at, making you curious to always discover new ones.
So we’ll let you discover the latest news:

Rakuten Viki

Sentimental
Sub-genres: social class differences, complicated relationships, marriage of convenience, betrayal, comedy, depression, amnesia, time travel, music bands, fantasy

Note: The Princess Bodyguard’s Love it’s available from June 11th, Wow my boss from June 14th.
Every precious moment it’s available with English subtitles; Italian subtitles are in the works.

Netflix

Action
Sub-genres: drama, science fiction, historical/post-war, tokusatsu/kaijuu

Note: Godzilla Minus One it’s available with Italian dubbing

Dramatic
Sub-genres: legal drama, crime, political, action, corruption

Note: Anti-Hero it’s available with the first 5 episodes; Like a wave is coming from June 28th

Sentimental
Sub-genres: drama, artists, bullying, violence, social class differences, elite school, comedy

Note: Six months and a year it’s available from June 27th

Mystery
Sub-genres: drama, science fiction, thriller, investigations, cult

Note: A bottomless mystery it’s available with the first four episodes

Sport
Sub-genres: revenge, world of work, character growth

Note: The Astros’ revenge it’s available from June 15th

MyMoviesOne

Dramatic
Sub-genres: revenge, family, thriller, auteur cinema

Sentimental
Sub-genres: dramatic, psychological, regrets, auteur cinema

Action
Sub-genres: adventure, drama, sentimental, auteur cinema

Note: on the occasion of the recent Cannes Film Festival, titles presented in previous editions of the festival were added to the catalogue, by great authors such as Yimou Zhang, Joon-ho Bong, Kar-Wai Wong and Chiu-Wai Leung.

Amazon Prime Video

Sentimental
Sub-genres: cohabitation, married couple, slice-of-life, adultery, relationship problems, fantasy, comedy

Note: 1122: for a Happy Marriage it’s available with the first three episodes starting June 14. Subsequent episodes will arrive every two weeks.

Comedy
Sub-genres: science fiction, mystery, human experiments, sentimental, age difference

Note: Melting me softly it is also available on Viki

Disney+

Dramatic
Sub-genres: historical, business, friendship

Rai Play

Documentary
Sub-genres: Asian cinema, Japanese cinema

Curiosity: the in-depth analysis of 05/21/2024 of Rai4’s Wonderland magazine is entirely dedicated to 26th Far East Film Festival

Available HERE

Recommended for you

Availability: Netflix
Adapted from: novel by Aoi Morita unpublished in Italy
Topics: sentimental, dramatic, art world, troubled love, incurable disease

Curiosity:

Akito Hayasaka is a talented artist, who is working hard to be included in the Nika Exhibition; However, the boy discovers that he has a heart tumor, which gives him just a year to live. At the time of diagnosis Akito did not appear to have any reactions.
One day, on the hospital roof, the young man meets a girl who is painting: Haruna Sakurai confesses to him that she only has six months to live. Akito finds himself more and more attracted to her day after day, but does not reveal his physical condition to her.

Availability: MyMoviesOne
Topics: family, social commentary, dark comedy, noir

Curiosity:

• the South Korean film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes;
• it collected four statuettes at the Oscars, the first foreign language film to win in important categories such as Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film;
• written, directed and produced by Joon-ho Bong;

Ki-taek’s family is very close, but they are all unemployed, live in a rather dilapidated mini apartment and seem condemned to a future without prospects. With the recommendation of a friend, a student at a prestigious university, young Ki-woo manages to get a good job as an English teacher to Da-hye, the teenage daughter of the wealthy Park family.

Availability: Netflix

Adapted from: novel by Mayusuke Kurai unpublished in Italy
Topics: thriller, serial killer, investigations

Curiosity:

A bizarre and bloody serial murder case takes place, where the murders appear to be influenced by the picture book “Kaibutsu no Kikori”. The serial killer wears the mask of the “Lumberjack Monster” and attacks his victims with an ax to take their brains. The serial killer’s next target is the lawyer Akira Ninomiya, a person who lacks empathy for others, is cold-blooded and heartless and has the traits of a psychopath, even willing to kill to achieve his goal. Other people become involved in the case, including profiler Ranko Toshiro, Akira Ninomiya’s girlfriend Emi Hasumi, Dr. Kuro Sugitani, and murder suspect Takeshi Kenmochi. The case is a real puzzle, starting with the need to find out why the serial killer takes the victim’s brain and why the next target is chosen. The police use all their resources to investigate, while Ninomiya aims to target the killer. Psychopath versus serial killer… Who will get to the truth first?

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Before leaving you to watch, a little suggestion for us and for you: if you find a live action title on one of these platforms that you can’t find in our database and you would like to be able to comment and browse, please let us know, possibly with precise references (title – better if original, provenance, etc).
We will add it for you as soon as possible!

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