‘Straight to Hell’ Main Trailer Begins to Unmask Japan’s Most Infamous Fortuneteller

“You are going straight to hell.”

The chilling line comes from fortuneteller Kazuko Hosoki, played by Erika Toda, in the newly unveiled main trailer of the upcoming Netflix series Straight to Hell. As Hosoki dominates Japan’s TV screens and grips the nation with her brutal predictions, writer Minori Uozumi (Sairi Ito) watches in fascination — and makes a bold declaration: she’ll take the life Hosoki has led so far and turn it into a book.

With that, the story begins to unravel how this extraordinary figure known as “Kazuko Hosoki” was created, and the brutal reality of the life she led. The main trailer also offers a closer look at Toma Ikuta as Masaya Hotta, one of the men who toy with Hosoki's destiny, and Toko Miura as legendary Showa-era singer Chiyoko Shimakura.

Having lost everything in the war, a young Hosoki survives a harrowing childhood marked by extreme hunger, forced to eat even earthworms just to stay alive. From there, she claws her way up as a Ginza hostess and, while still young, rises to rule the nightlife as a “queen.” Then comes another low point in her life, where she loses everything and falls to her rock bottom — before launching a ferocious ascent to the very top, using men and women alike, lies and desire, anything and everything as her tools.

Hosoki’s life can feel dangerously seductive: at times overwhelmingly alluring, at others, like a slow, irresistible pull that corrodes everyone around her. Minori is one of those drawn in. Commissioned to ghostwrite Hosoki’s autobiographical novel, she begins spending her days interviewing Hosoki face-to-face. Under the spell of Hosoki’s hypnotic storytelling and razor-sharp insight that seems to see right through people’s hearts, Minori finds herself pulled deeper into her world.

But one day, something shifts. Minori begins to question everything she had believed up to that point. When she finally confronts “Kazuko Hosoki”, the polished persona and the buried truths that build this woman’s life are at last laid bare.

A fortuneteller who seized people’s hearts, enjoyed unrivaled popularity, and amassed staggering wealth — Kazuko Hosoki’s life was painted in jet black. Now, Straight to Hell drags that hidden past into the light.

Straight to Hell premieres April 27, only on Netflix.

Production Information Cast: Erika Toda Sairi Ito  /  Toko Miura  / Eita Okuno / Kentaro Tamura / Ayumu Nakajima Gaku Hosokawa / Yoshihiko Hosoda / Erika Shumoto / Miho Kanazawa /  Show Kasamatsu / Tasuku Nagaoka /  Yuko Nakamura / Miwako Ichikawa / Kazuya Takahashi /  Tetta Sugimoto / Kimiko Yo /  Renji Ishibashi /  Yasuko Tomita / Toma Ikuta Directors: Tomoyuki Takimoto, Norichika Oba Director of Photography: Taro Kawazu Production Designer: Mitsuo Harada Art Director: Genki Horime Sound Recordist: Yasuo Takano, Noriyuki Shimada Set Decorator: Junichi Ishigami Edited by: Nobuyuki Takahashi, Masaya Okazaki, Hitomi Nozawa Music by: Hibiki Inamoto VFX Supervisor: Yoshinori Makino Producers: Tatsuya Banno, Tomoo Fukatsu Line Producer: Koji Harada Production Companies: Django Film, Corp. Produced by: Netflix  https://www.netflix.com/straighttohell