Moonrise is a 2025 Japanese series that keeps one foot in crime storytelling and the other in noir mood, built around a schoolboy whose name was rewritten for him by a courtroom he never set foot in.
What is Moonrise about?
Danny walks into class each morning behind a reputation he did not build. His father stood trial over the death of another man and received a capital sentence, and the community has quietly folded that outcome into how it treats the son. What follows moves between crime drama and romance, tracing how suspicion travels through a small circle of classmates and how a young person decides which parts of an inherited story he is willing to carry. The register stays close and personal rather than procedural, with the legal case pressing on the edges of ordinary days.
About the cast
The credited cast is led by Chiaki Kobayashi and Yuto Uemura, with Kosuke Takaguchi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Arisa Kori, Yuka Terasaki, Yu Kobayashi and Katsunori Okai completing the ensemble. Names appear here in catalogue order rather than by character. The material gives the group a register built on restraint, so much of the tension sits in pauses, in half-finished sentences, and in what the surrounding town declines to say aloud.
Context & significance
Moonrise is credited to Masashi Koizuka and Yasuhiro Akamatsu and is catalogued as a 2025 production from Japan. Its genre tags span crime, drama, noir, romance and thriller, a wide spread that fairly describes how the series moves: the legal case supplies the frame, the noir styling supplies the atmosphere, and the drama and romance strands supply most of the scenes. The catalogue lists a runtime close to an hour and a half. It sits in a long line of Japanese stories where a verdict is less an ending than a condition the characters live inside.
Watching Moonrise on Ktime
Moonrise streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose the original audio with Farsi text or the dubbed track depending on who is watching with you. This page stays open to read without signing in; starting playback is the step that needs a K-Time account login. The interface runs in Farsi throughout, which keeps browsing, search and playback settings familiar for Persian-speaking households abroad.