The production company WEMAD is co-producing Fuji TV's flagship anthology series Seikai ni Fushigi na Monogatari 35th anniversary special, opening a new chapter in Korea-Japan content cooperation.
The Seikai ni Fushigi na Monogatari 35th anniversary special — autumn edition, which WEMAD participated in, will air on Fuji TV at 9 p.m. on Nov. 8 (Sat). As a Korea-Japan co-production combining creative strengths from both countries, it heralds a new turning point for the series.
The third installment of this special, Stop moving and you can't survive, is a work planned and developed jointly by Korean content producer WEMAD and Kyodo Television.
Stop moving and you can't survive is a suspense thriller in which a man in despair takes part in a mysterious game offering a 3 billion yen prize and falls into a strange world where reality and illusion intersect. Ryosuke Yamada stars, drawing attention for his first appearance in Seikai ni Fushigi na Monogatari.
Fuji TV producer Kano Yuta and Evana Matsuki and Kyodo Television producers Nakamura Ryota and Udatani Kosuke oversaw the entire project, and WEMAD CEO Lee Hyun-wook, CEO Kim Yeon-seong, PD Lee Joon-yong and PD Kim Yu-rim from Korea participated as joint production staff. The script was written by Ju-jin of WEMAD, and the direction is by Masato Hijikata of Kyodo Television, raising expectations.
WEMAD has been recognized for its drama production capabilities through various Korean dramas such as Check In Hanyang, drama Gaseumi Tteunda, and The Red Sleeve, and through this project it has expanded the scope of collaboration with Japan's leading broadcaster Fuji TV.
This collaboration is particularly meaningful as a "creative collaboration production model" in which writers and producers from both countries participated jointly from the planning stage. By combining Japanese-style suspense structure with Korean emotional lines and mise-en-scène, it adds a new aesthetic and directorial depth to the Seikai ni Fushigi na Monogatari series.
A WEMAD official said this project was more than a simple co-production; it was a new form of collaboration in which production teams from both countries discovered and refined stories together, and added that they want to continue delivering new emotions to global viewers through cooperation with Asian countries.
This project is drawing attention as an expanded co-production model in which the two countries closely collaborated from the planning stage, beyond a simple co-production. WEMAD plans to use this collaboration as an opportunity to continuously expand original content production and OTT distribution partnerships targeting the Asian market.
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