Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original series Plastic Beauty. The album features the show’s main theme composed by Yuta Bandoh (Look Back, Sheep in the Box, Belle Poupelle of Chimney Town), as well as selections of the drama’s original score composed by MON/KU and Sayaka Aoki. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to Bandoh’s main theme after the jump. Plastic Beauty is directed by Yuki Saito, written by Junya Ikegami and stars Mayu Matsuoka, Riisa Naka, Shotaro Mamiya, Minami Tanaka, Mijika Nagai, Riku Hagiwara, Daichi Watanabe, Kavka Shishido, Reiji Nakagawa and Yu Shirota. The 8-parter follows a gifted surgeon who is forced out of her hospital after an emergency operation and a celebrity cosmetic surgeon who believes beauty itself can heal as they collide over sharply opposing ideas of what medicine and beauty are for.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 24, 2026)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action thriller Motor City directed by Potsy Ponciroli and starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, Pablo Schreiber, Ben McKenzie, Lionel Boyce and Amar Chadha-Patel.The film’s original music is composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Island, Desperate Housewives, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, Skyscraper, Ender’s Game, DC League of Super-Pets). No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and is being distributed by the Independent Film Company.
Opening semi-wide in around 700 theaters is the sci-fi/horror thriller Her Private Hell co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Charles Melton, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva and Hidetoshi Nishijima. Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, Blow Out, The Howling) has composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as a couple of tracks by Julian Winding who has provided additional music, today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Neon.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 14, 2022)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the slasher movie Scream directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett and starring Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Mikey Madison, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sonia Ammar, as well as Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Fast & Furious, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Crazy Rich Asians, Yellowstone, Now You See Me, Thor: The Dark World). Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening wide this week is the Japanese animated feature Belle directed by Mamoru Hosoda and starring Paul Castro Jr., Jessica DiCicco, Chace Crawford, Brandon Engman, Manny Jacinto, Hunter Schafer and Cristina Vee Valenzuela. Taisei Iwasaki, Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding) and Yuta Bandoh (It Comes), among others, have composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released two soundtrack album featuring the songs (in Japanese and English) and score from the movie. Click here for the details of the original Japanese edition and click here for the details of the English edition and for more information about the GKIDS release.