Limited series · TBS
DREAM STAGE
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tomoya Nakamura
Jun Azuma
9 eps
Elaiza Ikeda
Minase Endo
9 eps
Yoji Iwase
Ryo
9 eps
Lee Yi-kyung
Choi Ki-young
9 eps
Ha Yeon-soo
Nam Ha-yoon
9 eps
Kim Jae-kyung
Park Jisoo
9 eps
Jung Ho-jin
Yeonwoo
9 eps
Riku Shiga
IK
9 eps
松瀬太虹
Iro
9 eps
ISAAC (KAJA)
Nicc
9 eps
Seo Wu-joon
Choi Ji-hoon
9 eps
Fumiya Takahashi
ダンスコーチ
1 eps
Yuki Saito
弥栄子
1 eps
Nagisa Shibuya
新垣レイナ
1 eps
Nanao
女性
1 eps
Ayami Nakajo
MC
1 eps
Hayato Sano
佐野勇斗
1 eps
高杉真宙
酒井
1 eps
Emma Miyazawa
山根真美
1 eps
LiLiCo
1 eps
Meru Nukumi
生見愛瑠
1 eps
Minoru Matsumoto
先輩料理人
1 eps
Takafumi Imai
ディレクター
1 eps
Rina Koike
まなの母
1 eps
Aoi Ikemura
まな
1 eps
Mandy Sekiguchi
1 eps
Kohei Arakawa
記者
1 eps
Yoon Seo-ah
イム・ミンソ
1 eps
Shin Koyanagi
蛭田
1 eps
Airi Hara
1 eps
吉水やこ
女子高生
1 eps
山川愛理
女子高生
1 eps
杉山真也
杉山真也
1 eps
Pistol Takehara
碇
1 eps
Makoto Rei
石田美奈
1 eps
Mio Kudo
女性
1 eps
Myung-Hwa Hong
女性
1 eps
Toshihiro Yashiba
山田
1 eps
Miho Watanabe
ファン
1 eps
Yohei Ito
アナウンサー
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How DREAM STAGE actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
DREAM STAGE reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
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
A fallen music producer hits rock bottom and finds redemption by training a struggling boy band, navigating fierce K-POP competition and forging unbreakable bonds along the way.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Masanao TakahashiProducer
Music
- Shuichiro FukuhiroOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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