Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama Share a Gruesome Border on Netflix
The Blue Road, Han Jun-hee's Korea-Japan crime thriller, streams worldwide on 20 November.
Netflix Thu 20 Nov
Netflix premieres The Blue Road worldwide on 20 November 2026. Han Jun-hee directs the eight-episode series, which follows Seoul Metropolitan Police detective Kim Seok (Son Suk-ku) and Tokyo Metropolitan Police detective Inose (Eita Nagayama) as they chase a string of cross-border murders marked by contorted bodies and dying messages written in each other's languages.
Netflix's main trailer and key art, released on 5 November, place the story against the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and take the investigation from Seoul and Tokyo out toward Central Asia and Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City. Kim Shin-rock plays Li Yoon-ok, a Zainichi Korean businesswoman; Choi Sung-eun is Yoon Soo-kyung, a government agent; and Jung Jae-young appears as Seo Hyun-tae, a heavyweight in Japan's criminal underworld.
The first three episodes screened at the Busan International Film Festival earlier this year. The series is a Netflix Original produced by Shortcake.
Two detectives, two alphabets, one very bad postcard habit.
