{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c76a1cb679e3ca2f7376113e","clusterId":"c_505319a0f71eafcdeec60443","slug":"downtime-director-yuki-saito-details-six-months-of-interviews-behind-the-netflix-series","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Downtime Director Yuki Saito Details Six Months of Interviews Behind the Netflix Series","summary":"Director Yuki Saito spent six months interviewing cosmetic surgery patients and doctors for the Netflix series Downtime, which stars Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka. Patient subjects ranged from first-timers to people who had undergone multiple surgeries. Doctors interviewed included staff at Takasu Clinic, which supervised the series, and younger surgeons who opened their own practices. Contact was made through Nekura-chan, who runs a plastic surgery website.","whyItMatters":"The interviews shaped both the script and a character in the series, Ozo-chan, whose model is the same website operator who arranged the roundtable sessions.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe interview subjects were gathered through Nekura-chan, who runs a website for people dealing with cosmetic surgery and is the model for Ozo-chan, played by Tan Nagai. Saito said the production conducted roundtable interviews with patients. Screenwriter Junya Ikegami and the production team joined the research, and the resulting procedures shown in the series include breast augmentation, nose surgery, jaw reduction, facelift, and full-body plastic surgery.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Downtime's casting answer was in the research: Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka play patients, and Yuki Saito's six months of interviews covered first-timers through repeat surgeries.","twitterPost":"Yuki Saito's Downtime research ran six months and spanned first-timers to repeat patients, not one surgery story.","threadsPost":"Yuki Saito's six-month interview run for Downtime covered patients from first-timers to people who had gone under multiple times. The casting for Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka sits on that spread. One clinic supervised; younger surgeons who left to open their own practices are in the mix too.","newsletterBlurb":"Director Yuki Saito spent six months conducting interviews for Netflix's Downtime, speaking with cosmetic surgery patients and doctors alongside screenwriter Junya Ikegami and the production team. Patients ranged from first-timers to people who had undergone multiple surgeries. The interviews were arranged through Nekura-chan, a plastic surgery website operator who is also the model for the series character Ozo-chan.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0156953\",\"title\":\"Director Yuki Saito Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Insights from Interviews with Cosmetic Surgery Patients for \\\"Downtime\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4643,"outputTokens":555,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789686862,"createdAt":"2026-09-17T23:09:46.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-17T23:13:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T23:13:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_505319a0f71eafcdeec60443","canonicalTitle":"「ダウンタイム」美容整形経験者への取材で気付き　Yuki Saito監督が裏側明かす","representativeArticleId":"a_2d38e9c08d3b9c5293024995","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Downtime\"],\"studios\":[\"Netflix\"],\"people\":[\"Yuki Saito\",\"Mayu Matsuoka\",\"Riisa Naka\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-17T22:32:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-17T22:32:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T23:13:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0156953","title":"「ダウンタイム」美容整形経験者への取材で気付き　Yuki Saito監督が裏側明かす"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Downtime"],"studios":["Netflix"],"people":["Yuki Saito","Mayu Matsuoka","Riisa Naka"],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}