Teaser of First Love offers glimpse of love story that spans more than 20 years

Netflix recently revealed the teaser trailer and teaser art for its new Japanese series First Love directed and written by Yuri Kanchiku.

The series stars Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh. According to the streaming platform, the series tells a spectacular love story that spans more than 20 years. First Love will premiere globally on Netflix on November 24, 2022. The cross-generational love story is inspired by First Love (1999) and Hatsukoi (2018), two seminal songs by J-Pop sensation Hikaru Utada.

In the series, Hikari Mitsushima plays Yae Noguchi, and Takeru Satoh as Harumichi Namiki, who are high school sweethearts. The streaming platform's logline reads, "They meet in the late 90s. Each pursues their dreams while trying to stay together, but fate has other things planned for them, and two decades later, Yae is a single mom to a teenage son, while Harumichi is engaged to marry someone else. However, they soon discover that their love story is not quite over yet… For Hikaru Utada, who has written various songs for scripted series and films in the past, this will be the first-ever scripted series directly inspired by their songs."

The other cast includes leading as well as up-and-coming talent from Japan, including Rikako Yagi, Taisei Kido, Kaho, Minami, Akiyoshi Nakao, Araki Towa, Aoi Yamada, Gaku Hamada, Osamu Mukai, Arata Iura and Kyoko Koizumi.