Scripted series · FOD
Spinnerbait
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Seishirou Katou
Kota Mitsui
11 eps
Mamoru Hagiwara
Shinjiro Uchi
11 eps
So Okuno
Terayama
11 eps
Nao Takahashi
Tamashiro
11 eps
Asahi Ito
Kiyono
11 eps
桃児
Kahara
11 eps
Kaname Yoshizawa
Takahashi
11 eps
Kaito Yoshimura
Kamegai
11 eps
Kotona Minami
Emi Onoda (Megu)
11 eps
Haruto Yoshida
Daigo Ueda
11 eps
Taro Suruga
Yoshimi
11 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Spinnerbait actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Spinnerbait reads strongest on Tension, Serialized and Cliffhanger Intensity.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
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.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
A timid high school boy joins a so-called fishing club that turns out to be a yakuza-run vigilante group, where he gets trapped at the bottom of its brutal hierarchy while a serial murder case begins to unfold around him.
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
- Shintaro MitaniWriter
- Tomomi OokuboWriter
- Nishigaki MasakiWriter
Direction
- Hirase RyotaroDirector
Where to watch
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