“Queen of Tears” Ranks No.1 On Netflix Japan, Will It Repeat “Crash Landing On You” Success?
tvN’s ongoing drama “Queen of Tears”, starring Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won, is showing positive results overseas
According to the production company Studio Dragon on March 20th, “Queen of Tears” ranked No.3 in Global Top 10 Series (from March 11th to March 17th) released by Netflix earlier on the same day. As such, the drama went up 4 spots compared to the result of the previous week. Especially, “Queen of Tears” beat all other dramas on Netflix Japan, creating a buzz in this country.
The OTT platform ranking service FlixPatrol also revealed that “Queen of Tears” topped Netflix Japan’s TV Show chart on the 11th, three days after its premiere. Since entering Top 10, the drama has consistently remained in the top, except for only one day.
Japan’s largest content review website Filmarks also gives the drama a high score of 4.3 out of 5, which is very close to the point of 4.5 recorded by Park Ji-eun’s previous work “Crash Landing on You”.
Released in 2019 on Netflix during the Covid-19 pandemic, “Crash Landing on You” gained huge love worldwide, especially in Japan. According to the “2023 K-Content Overseas Expansion” survey published by the Korea Creative Content Agency in January, “Crash Landing on You” was one of the K-dramas that Japanese viewers watch frequently, along with “Winter Sonata”.
“Queen of Tears” tells about the crisis faced by chaebol Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) and her husband Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) in the third year of their marriage. After airing only 4 episodes, the drama already surpassed 13% and is breaking its own highest rating record every week.
