Netflix’s ‘The Queen Of Villains’: Japanese Comedian & ‘America’s Got Talent’ Contestant Yuriyan Retriever To Lead

Max Goldbart
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EXCLUSIVE: Popular Japanese comedian and America’s Got Talent contestant Yuriyan Retriever is to lead Netflix Japan series The Queen of Villains. 

Retriever will play the lead role of Dump Matsumoto, a professional wrestler who led the women’s boom in the sport with her cult-like popularity and took Japan by storm in the 1980s, a time when wrestling was even more male dominated than it is now. While trying to succeed as a heroic pro wrestler, she was nearly fired before becoming the most famous Japanese female wrestler of all time, and the series depicts her friendships and fights with companions.

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Popular comic Retriever famously appeared as a dancer in 2019’s America’s Got Talent. 

The Queen of Villains was unveiled on a Netflix Japan slate late last year along with several scripted shows and the likes of Love Is Blind: Japan. It will air in 2023.

Junya Ikegami is writer, Kazuya Shiraishi is director and Shinichi Takahashi is executive producer.

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