First Love (2022 TV series)

First Love (First Love 初恋) is a Japanese television series starring Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh, released by Netflix on 24 November 2022. The series and its Japanese title were inspired by two Hikaru Utada songs, "First Love" and "Hatsukoi".

Plot
The plot revolves around a man and a woman who met in the late 1990s as teenagers and grew up together in the early 2000s. After 15 years, they meet again and try to rekindle their first love through memories. Yae wanted to be a flight attendant but suffered an accident. Harumichi served as a pilot in the JASDF but his life took a different path.

Cast

 * Hikari Mitsushima as Yae Noguchi
 * Rikako Yagi as young Yae
 * Takeru Satoh as Harumichi Namiki
 * Taisei Kido as young Harumichi
 * Kaho as Tsunemi Arikawa
 * Minami as Yū Namiki
 * Itsuki Nagasawa as young Yū
 * Akiyoshi Nakao as Bonji Kawano
 * Jiei Wakabayashi as young Bonji
 * Towa Araki as Tsuzuru Kosaka
 * Aoi Yamada as Uta Komori
 * Gaku Hamada as Ōtaro

Reception
Phil Harrison from The Guardian wrote that "it’s tasteful, idealised and at times, a little antiseptic: romance as designed by Marie Kondo".