Articles about Hulu Japan
Head examined
Ran Tellem, executive producer of The Head, takes DQ inside the making of the survival thriller’s third and final season, explains how its locations and storytelling style have evolved and reveals why he is backing the rise of English-language series produced outside the UK and US.
Hack race
Surveillance drama Concordia is set in a place ruled by AI – until a series of crimes put the titular town of the future on the verge of breakdown. Showrunner Frank Doelger and star Ruth Bradley give DQ a guided tour.
Global swarming
The Swarm is the eagerly anticipated big-budget adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s ecological disaster novel. DQ buzzes around production designer Julian Wagner, director Barbara Eder and VFX supervisor Jan Stoltz to hear about filming in Italy, shooting in water tanks and creating a pod of sleeping whales.
Scene Stealers: The Head
The Head executive producer Ran Tellem and director Jorge Dorado dive into the climactic scene of season two to reveal how the cast ended up adrift in the Atlantic Ocean.
Vintage television
Writer Quoc Dang Tran and director Oded Ruskin raise a glass with DQ to toast completing the ‘impossible task’ of adapting 44-volume manga series Drops of God as an eight-part TV series, which follows two people competing to inherit the world’s finest wine collection.
Coming to a Head
DQ tests out its sea legs on the set of the second season of survival thriller The Head, where the cast and crew tease details of a new story set on a cargo ship. Irene Jimenez reports.
All according to Tran
French screenwriter Quoc Dang Tran discusses his unusual path to working in television, breaking out with horror series Marianne and adapting a Japanese manga for Drops of God.
Drinking it in
Screenwriter Quoc Dang Tran and the executives behind French-Japanese production Drops of God reveal how they have adapted a manga series about wine into an eight-part TV drama.
Head scratcher
Director Jorge Dorado, executive producer Ran Tellem and the cast of The Head open up about filming the Spanish-made thriller, which is set at a remote scientific laboratory in Antarctica.
The Last Cop: How to go from German to Japanese
Michael Pickard speaks to the key players involved in the translation of German hit The Last Cop into Japanese.