The new Netflix drama Straight To Hell is a scripted take on the life of one of Japan’s most famous fortune tellers, who would go on TV and tell the people she was reading that they would being “going to hell” and other blunt assessments.
Opening Shot: A white stretch limo drives down a city street in Tokyo. The year is 2005.
The Gist: The woman in the limo is Kazuko Hosoki (Erika Toda), who has become exceedingly wealthy as a blunt and honest fortune teller. She goes on TV shows and reads hosts, guests and audience members, and her appearances always get high ratings. Some of her bluntness is for show, but when she tells a female comedian who wants to know if she’ll marry before 30 she’s going “straight to hell,” and that she will kill herself, there’s a large amount of what she considers the truth
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