"The Boundary Between Sex Friends and Lovers" Prime Video's new romance variety show will be released on September 3rd, featuring Mizuki Yamashita, Nakamura Yuri, Kaneko Daichi, and others

It has been announced that Prime Video's new show, "The Line Between Friends with Benefits and Lovers" (Amazon MGM Studios), will begin streaming exclusively to Prime members from September 3rd. This is a new romance variety show from Prime Video, the company behind many popular shows such as "Bachelor Japan" and the "Love Transit" series. The hosts, who all have different views on love, will have a frank discussion while watching three short films that realistically depict the emotions that waver in "ambiguous relationships."

The hosts will be entertainer YOU, comedian Kuruma Takahira from the comedy duo "Reiwa Roman," Saya from "Laland," and actor Yudai Chiba. Actors Mizuki Yamashita, Yuri Nakamura, and Daichi Kaneko will appear in the three short films.

The first short film, "If We Could Be Lovers" (director: Yamanaka Yoko / scriptwriters: Imaizumi Kaori and Imaizumi Rikiya), depicts the feelings of love of a woman who is conflicted about her ambiguous relationship with the person she likes, which is "more than friends but less than lovers." Nakata Aoi plays the main character, Tanabe Tomoko, and Kaneko plays Matsuyama Satoshi, the man Tomoko has a crush on.

The second film, "Introduction to Marriage Studies" (director: Imaizumi Rikiya / scriptwriters: Imaizumi Kaori and Imaizumi Rikiya), tells the story of a popular magazine editor who prioritizes work over romance, who reunites with a middle school classmate and begins a relationship with the intention of getting married. Nakamura plays the main character, Ikegami Sana, Nagaoka Yu plays Sana's classmate, Takebayashi Keita, and Maehara Akira plays Kaneko Tatsuya, who is in a casual relationship with Sana.

Her third film, "A Special Person" (director and screenwriter: Imaizumi Rikiya), tells the story of a woman who has a boyfriend but continues an ambiguous relationship with a junior from her university days. Yamashita plays the protagonist Kawabata Tomoko, while Yoshimura Sojiro plays Fujiwara Kazuki, who has a relationship with Kawabata as "a special friend who also has sex with him."

Yamashita commented, "I jumped into the project with a spirit of adventure, wanting to get on board the boat of Director Imaizumi and Producer Ashida from Amazon, two people I can absolutely trust when it comes to creating interesting things. The subject matter may seem a little deep, but the world view is so pop that when I read the script I couldn't help but burst out laughing. And when I saw the finished product, I found myself laughing my head off. I can't wait for it to reach everyone as a new form of entertainment."