The Plastic Beauty (Original title: Dauntaimu) Netflix cast is led by Mayu Matsuoka as Fumi Numata, a gifted emergency surgeon forced into cosmetic medicine, and Riisa Naka as Rin Tohyama, a famous cosmetic surgeon with a very different outlook. Shotaro Mamiya, Minami Tanaka, Hiromi Nagasaku and Atsuro Watabe have also received confirmed character descriptions. Netflix has announced 19 more performers, although their roles have not yet been named publicly.

Plastic Beauty premieres on Netflix on September 17, 2026. The Japanese medical drama uses a clash between two doctors to examine beauty, ambition, money and the emotional consequences of changing one’s appearance.

Plastic Beauty Netflix cast and characters

The confirmed cast is much larger than the two-doctor rivalry at the center of the story. Netflix has named 25 performers in total. The platform has revealed character names for six of them, while the remaining roles are being kept under wraps ahead of the premiere.

Mayu Matsuoka as Fumi Numata

Mayu Matsuoka plays Fumi Numata, a highly capable emergency-room surgeon whose career takes an unwanted turn. Fumi is moved into cosmetic medicine, a field whose priorities initially appear incompatible with the urgent, life-saving work she knows. Her resistance makes her the audience’s entry point into the clinic.

Fumi’s conflict is not simply a debate over whether cosmetic surgery is good or bad. She has to understand why patients seek treatment, how appearance affects their lives and where a doctor’s responsibility begins and ends. Matsuoka is internationally recognizable from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning film Shoplifters. Her official Instagram profile is @mayu_matsuoka_koushiki.

Riisa Naka as Rin Tohyama

Riisa Naka plays Rin Tohyama, the celebrity cosmetic surgeon who clashes with Fumi. Rin understands image, presentation and the commercial machinery surrounding beauty. That makes her an effective foil for a doctor coming from emergency medicine, but the series is designed to look beyond an easy hero-versus-villain division.

Naka is familiar to Netflix viewers as Mira Kano in Alice in Borderland. Viewers interested in another Japanese Netflix production can also read our guide to the cast and manga roots of SX. Naka posts on Instagram at @riisa1018naka.

Shotaro Mamiya as Rui Komiya

Shotaro Mamiya plays Rui Komiya, described by Netflix as the clinic’s striking vice director. A vice director can sit at the junction of medicine, management and money, so Rui is positioned to influence the struggle between Fumi’s medical instincts and Rin’s celebrity-led approach.

Minami Tanaka as Nanami Todoroki

Minami Tanaka portrays Nanami Todoroki, the clinic’s head nurse. Nanami is likely to see the parts of treatment that polished consultations and before-and-after photographs omit: preparation, recovery, pain, uncertainty and patient care. Netflix has not yet disclosed how she aligns herself in the doctors’ conflict.

Hiromi Nagasaku as Taeko Numata

Hiromi Nagasaku plays Taeko Numata, Fumi’s mother. Her inclusion suggests that the drama will connect Fumi’s professional transformation to her family history and personal ideas about appearance, worth and success.

Atsuro Watabe as Arata Tohyama

Atsuro Watabe plays Arata Tohyama, a powerful figure in the cosmetic-surgery world. He shares Rin’s surname, but Netflix’s announcement stops short of defining their relationship. It is therefore safer to view that connection as an open question until the series confirms it.

Who are the other Plastic Beauty cast members?

The supporting ensemble includes Riku Hagiwara, Mijika Nagai, Daichi Watanabe, Reiji, Kavka Shishido, Yu Shirota, Naozumi Masuko, Sosei Takeda, Rika Izumi, Kentaro Tamura, Eisuke Sasai, Hana Amano, Hina Kagei, Naoko Ken, Kayo Noro, Rin Furukawa, Yumi Adachi, Shunsuke Kazama and Kōki.

Netflix has not assigned public character names to those 19 actors. The announcement’s discussion of prosthetic work indicates that multiple performers play patients whose stories include a “before,” a period of post-procedure swelling and bruising, and an “after.” It does not, however, identify which actor belongs to which patient story. This page can be updated with a fuller who-plays-who table after Netflix releases the remaining roles.

What is Plastic Beauty about?

Plastic Beauty begins when Fumi leaves emergency surgery for cosmetic medicine and encounters Rin. Their opposing methods expose the pressures behind an industry built around appearance, desire and money. Netflix says the drama approaches cosmetic surgery through the experiences of both doctors and patients, rather than presenting procedures as either effortless empowerment or automatic exploitation.

The production also treats the physical recovery process as part of the story. Special-effects artist Amazing JIRO led the team responsible for creating the stages of each patient’s transformation. That detail matters because cosmetic work on screen often jumps directly from consultation to result. Here, the uncomfortable period between those moments appears to be part of the drama.

For another Netflix story built around beauty, power and the cost of ambition, see our coverage of the Beauty in Black renewal. Readers who enjoy character-led workplace drama may also want the Best Medicine Netflix cast guide.

When does Plastic Beauty come out on Netflix?

Plastic Beauty releases on Netflix on September 17, 2026. Netflix has not announced a weekly rollout, so the current expectation is that the available season will arrive on the premiere date. The exact episode count and running times were not included in the official cast announcement.

Who made the Japanese Netflix series?

Yuki Saito directs the series from a screenplay by Junya Ikegami. Harue Miyake and Katsuhito Motegi serve as producers, with Shin-ichi Kudo as planning producer. K2 Pictures produced the drama for Netflix. Yuta Bandoh created the main theme, with music by MON/KU and Sayaka Aoki.

The creative team has emphasized that the central question is not merely who is conventionally beautiful. The series is interested in how rigid social expectations shape personal choices and how the possibility of physical change can feel liberating and imprisoning at the same time.