A troubled man meets a boxer. A love story of a lifetime ensues.
Netflix announced the new live-action series titled ‘Soul Mate’ starring Hayato Isomura and Ok Taec-yeon directed by up-and-coming creator Shunki Hashizume (Scroll, More Than Words). Netflix describes the romantic series as heartfelt, depicting love’s complexities, including the feelings of joy, pain, and unexplainable deep bonds between two souls.
“Traversing the cities of Berlin, Seoul, and Tokyo, Soul Mate tells a 10-year-long love story between two young men. It all starts when Ryu Narutaki (Hayato Isomura), who left everything behind in Japan, is saved by a boxer named Johan Hwang (Ok Taec-yeon) in a foreign land.”
Hashizume and executive producer Dai Ota shared the core of the series: an ultimate destiny story, where people of two different cultures (Japanese and Korean) and backgrounds meet in a foreign land and their lives intersect. Filled with life’s joys and pains accentuated by the impeccable performances of Isomura and Taec-yeon, they ensure viewers that the upcoming show will warm their hearts.
