Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?(2026)

Gen Takasegawa made history as the first Japanese actor to lead at Shakespeare's Globe, and then the world simply forgot he existed. Not gradually, not partially: completely. The comedy lives in that specific absurdity, a man whose entire sense of self rests on public recognition waking up to find the recognition has been surgically removed while leaving him intact.

Each scene piles on a new layer of social humiliation as Gen tries to reassert a past that nobody can verify or remember. His wounded pride is both the engine of every joke and the thing that makes him genuinely pitiable, because the need driving him is real even when his self-importance is ridiculous. The embarrassment escalates rather than resolves, which gives the whole season a sharp, sustained comic sting.