Miniseries · YTV
Life in Smokey Blue
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kouhei Takeda
Sakutaro Azuma
10 eps
Kento Shibuya
Shizuka Kuji
10 eps
Takeshi Masu
Kuji Yoshiharu
10 eps
Mayumi Asaka
Azuma Yoshimi
10 eps
Ryuto Yamamoto
Morimoto Tamaki
10 eps
Mayu Sakuma
Morimoto Fumiko
10 eps
Kotaro Tanaka
Kuji Minoru
10 eps
Haruna Iikubo
Kuji Hazuki
10 eps
Kazuma Sano
Tajimi Yasuyuki
10 eps
Shun Aoi
Takeichi Maten
10 eps
YOUNG DAIS
Nukida Shinichiro
10 eps
Asuka Kurosawa
Hara Chika
10 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Life in Smokey Blue actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Life in Smokey Blue 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
Struggling salesman Sakutaro reunites with his sharp-tongued former rival Kuji, reigniting a buried one-night spark from eight years ago.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E10
Continuously
S01E09
Taking Shelter From The Rain, Getting Close
S01E08
Hope
S01E07
A White Lie
S01E06
Letting Go
S01E05
A New Step
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.
Writing
- Hiraki MariWriter
- 青木江梨花Writer
Direction
- Ere NakadaDirector
- Natsuki TakahashiDirector
Where to watch
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