![Netflix Japan is luring top actors away from TV by paying as much as ¥10 million ($63k) per episode- "Every terrestrial TV station is cutting production budgets year after year. "Even for someone of [her] caliber, it's only about ¥2 million per episode at most".](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Lt2Ub4xoEtVROVA59Z7tUkC-0ogIEE9oXnjkxxx_bKA-1024x538.jpeg "Netflix Japan is luring top actors away from TV by paying as much as ¥10 million ($63k) per episode- “Every terrestrial TV station is cutting production budgets year after year. “Even for someone of [her] caliber, it’s only about ¥2 million per episode at most”.")
Netflix Japan is luring top actors away from TV by paying as much as ¥10 million ($63k) per episode- “Every terrestrial TV station is cutting production budgets year after year. “Even for someone of [her] caliber, it’s only about ¥2 million per episode at most”.
https://gendai.media/articles/-/165755?imp=0
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Good for them. Make that dough while you can.
That’s like D-list Hollywood actor rates… I had no idea they were paid this little (relatively speaking).
“¥2 million per episode at most”
That’s $12.5K USD per episode for a lead actress. So a 10 episode series puts them at $125K USD per year. Yeah, this is peanuts compared to the salaries in Hollywood. No wonder everyone is jumping on the NF train.
I guess they are expected to leverage their fame to make more money via sponsorships?
No wonder recent jdrama quality went downhill compared to kdrama.
Japan just doesn’t pay. Maybe a good place to retire if you have a fat stack of cash that you can “hire” yourself with and avoid getting PR to retain preferential tax treatment.
Japanese TV has been careening off a cliff for many years. Blaming Netflix for bad TV bc they’re luring away talent in 2026 is ludicrous.
Ok… Good Japanese actors are rare and already doing things internationally. You always see the rest in dramas, TV shows and ads. Oversaturated with the same people. TV is already unwatchable with ads interrupted with shows (usually ads disguised as entertainment)(no, not the other way around).