Scripted series · Nippon TV
Before the Day
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Before the Day actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Before the Day reads strongest on Tension, Bingeability and Cliffhanger Intensity.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Three friends time-travel back seven years to the height of a serial murder spree to uncover the truth behind a "guilty" woman's execution.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Masato YabeProducer
- Akihisa YamamotoProducer
Writing
- 武田雄樹Writer
- Hayashi MoriWriter
Direction
- Hayato KawaiDirector
- Kenichi SonoDirector
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