Netflix’s ‘Plastic Beauty’ Cast Guide (With Photos)

Netflix is heading into Japan’s cosmetic surgery industry with its newest original drama, and the ensemble bringing that world to life spans veteran film actors and rising television faces. The Japanese drama set inside the country’s fast growing cosmetic surgery industry will premiere on September 17, giving audiences a look at a story built around two doctors with sharply different philosophies about beauty and medicine.

The series comes from a team with a track record in prestige Japanese television, and Netflix released the show’s teaser trailer alongside 23 additional cast members joining the two leads. Below is a closer look at the key names carrying ‘Plastic Beauty’ from its clinic hallways to its operating rooms.

Mayu Matsuoka

Mayu Matsuoka leads the series as its central figure, a surgeon whose career takes an unexpected turn. Her character Fumi Numata is a surgeon in the plastic and reconstructive surgery field who is gifted as a surgeon and focuses on saving lives, but due to circumstances has to switch to cosmetic surgery.

That shift puts her in direct conflict with the clinic’s star doctor, and the show frames her motives as more complicated than simple career necessity. Fumi secretly wants to expose what she sees as the darker side of the rapidly growing cosmetic surgery industry, including its superficial values and focus on profit.

Matsuoka is a familiar face to Netflix subscribers already. The actress previously starred in ‘The Greatest Teacher’, which is streaming on Netflix, and has also appeared in ‘The Makanai, Cooking for the Maiko House’, ‘Hell Dogs’, and ‘Dr. Storks’, all available to stream on the platform.

Riisa Naka

Opposite Matsuoka is Riisa Naka, playing the clinic’s public face and its most committed defender. Naka’s character Rin Tohyama is a celebrity surgeon who sees beauty as a source of healing, giving the series its central philosophical clash between two doctors who define medicine in very different terms.

Rin’s belief system is not treated as a punchline in the show’s marketing. Netflix describes the premise as centering on a clash with a celebrity doctor that exposes the greed and desire beneath the glamour, and Rin sits at the middle of that tension as both a symbol of the industry’s appeal and its excesses.

Naka arrives with a substantial Netflix resume of her own. The actress has starred in multiple J-dramas available on the platform, including ‘Alice in Borderland’, ‘I Love You Just a Little Bit’, ‘Let’s Get Divorced’, ‘Cells at Work’, ‘Extremely Inappropriate’, and the anime ‘The Imaginary’.

Shotaro Mamiya

Shotaro Mamiya rounds out the show’s central trio, and his casting has already drawn attention from a specific corner of Netflix’s audience. Mamiya is familiar to fans of ‘Tokyo Revengers’ and is part of the ‘Plastic Beauty’ cast, bringing a built in following to the series ahead of its premiere.

Reporting on the show’s expanded cast list places him among the named principal players rather than the background ensemble. Mamiya plays the character Rui Komiya, one of several figures whose stories intersect with Fumi and Rin’s clinic.

His involvement reflects the broader casting strategy behind the series, which paired two established leads with actors capable of anchoring individual patient or personal storylines. That structure appears intentional given how the show is built around multiple perspectives rather than a single hospital drama arc.

Minami Tanaka

Minami Tanaka joins the cast as another of the show’s principal supporting players. Tanaka plays the character Nanami Todoroki in a series that weaves several personal storylines through its central medical conflict.

The character’s placement alongside Fumi and Rin in early cast breakdowns suggests a role with meaningful screen time rather than a minor guest appearance. Details on Nanami Todoroki’s specific arc were not part of Netflix’s initial character descriptions, though the character is listed among the named principal cast.

Tanaka’s casting is part of a wider pattern in the show’s ensemble, which blends actors known primarily for film work with performers who have built careers in episodic Japanese television. That mix is visible across the broader supporting cast Netflix has confirmed for the series.

Atsuro Watabe

Atsuro Watabe plays a character with a direct personal connection to one of the two leads. Watabe’s character is Arata Tohyama, a name that ties him into Rin’s story and, by extension, the clinic at the center of the series.

His inclusion in the confirmed cast list places him among the handful of actors given named characters ahead of the show’s premiere, rather than the larger group of performers announced without character details attached.

The show’s producers have framed the larger ensemble as essential to how the story unfolds across both doctors and patients. Producer Harue Miyake has said the series focuses on the emotional struggles that lie in the space between what can be changed and what cannot, and that it is told from both the doctor’s and the patient’s perspectives, a framing that gives the surrounding cast, Watabe included, real narrative weight beyond the two leads.

With ‘Plastic Beauty’ set to premiere on September 17, which member of this cast are you most curious to see step into the clinic’s world of transformation and consequence.