Amazon adds sci-fi original to Japanese drama catalogue
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 29 June 2017

Amazon Prime Video has revealed its first original Japanese sci-fi series, a drama called FACE: Cyber Crime Special Investigation Unit.

Ayame Goriki stars as a cyber cop in the series, which will stream to subscribers of Amazon’s video-on-demand (VOD) service worldwide from 11 July. New episodes will be added weekly.

“Following our drama series such as*Kamen Rider Amazons*and*Tokyo Vampire Hotel, this is Amazon Prime Video’s first Japanese Amazon Original series set in the world of cyber crime,” said James Farrell, head of Asia Pacific content at Amazon Prime Video.

FACE: Cyber Crime Special Investigation Unit is directed by Ayato Matsuda and Hideki Hori and written by Masaki Fukusawa and Toshio Sekine. It is produced by Tokyo talent agency Oscar Promotion.

Amazon now carries more than 20 Japanese titles, including anime, dramas, documentaries and reality shows.