Netflix brings the songs of Japanese singer Hikaru Utada to scripted drama for the first time in new original series, “First Love”, set for a worldwide release in 2022.

The drama, starring Hikari Mitsushima (“Kangoku no Ohimesama”) and Takeru Satoh (“An Incurable Case of Love”), is inspired by two of Utada’s chart toppers – “First Love” (1999) and “Hatsukoi” (2018).

The series follows two young people from their meeting in the late 1990s to the present. Mitsushima plays an aspiring flight attendant struck by a tragic accident. Satoh plays a former pilot.

The series is written and directed by Yuri Kanchiku ("Let M The Reason I Love You, Other Stories", "Documentary of AKB48: To Be Continued").