2026年8月21日 / 美国东部时间上午11:03 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
日本法务省周五表示，将终止与一档引发争议的网飞相亲节目的合作。此前该节目因被指美化犯罪行为而遭到强烈反对。
本月早些时候，法务省与这家流媒体巨头的《深陷爱河的坏小子们》达成了一项不同寻常的合作，发布了一张由第二季嘉宾主演的宣传海报，其中包括多名纹满纹身的男女。
《深陷爱河的坏小子们》聚焦日本所谓的“不良少年”亚文化，将有着狂野且往往带有犯罪前科的年轻男女聚集在一起共同生活，其中曾有黑道成员和摩托车帮派成员。
“这是日本首个面向叛逆不良少年的相亲节目，11名单身男女将共同相处14天，碰撞出火花、建立羁绊，并全力以赴寻找真爱，”该节目在其官网的介绍中写道。
自去年12月上线以来，该节目意外成为全球热门剧集。网飞表示，其第一季连续数周位居韩国、中国台湾和中国香港的收视榜前十。网飞称，目前该节目的第二季是日本收视排名最高的节目。
这张2026年4月17日拍摄的照片显示，《深陷爱河的坏小子们》第一季嘉宾冢原俊也在东京的一场活动中留影。山崎雄一/法新社 盖蒂图片社
2025年《日本时报》对该剧的一篇评论称：“有时，这部剧就像是日本版的MTV《泽西海岸》，后者同样聚焦一个饱受诟病的亚文化，鼓励观众更深入地审视这类群体。”
法务省的更生保护局此前为这项合作辩护称，节目中展现的嘉宾坎坷的成长经历、赎罪过程和个人成长，与该部门“人是可以改变的”的理念相符。
法务省将该节目宣传为相关公益活动的一部分，该节目宣称旨在展现“真实做自己的人”。目前节目将在脱离政府支持的情况下继续播出。
“此次合作绝非旨在认可犯罪或不良行为，也绝非美化或轻视他人过往的犯罪经历，”法务省在周五的一份声明中表示。
“但我们收到了大量担忧和批评，认为这可能会让犯罪受害者感到不适，”声明补充说，双方的合作将终止。
《深陷爱河的坏小子们》第二季在某一集播出后遭到抨击，其中一名嘉宾坦言，青少年时期他曾因纵火以证明自己“没有临阵退缩”而被捕。
不过法务省表示，终止合作“并非要否认帮助过往罪犯改过自新的努力”。
这张2026年4月17日拍摄的照片显示，《深陷爱河的坏小子们》第一季嘉宾音羽在东京的一场活动中留影。山崎雄一/法新社 盖蒂图片社
《深陷爱河的坏小子们》执行制片人太田大在四月接受法新社采访时表示，在制作第一季之前，制作团队已经进行了“深入的内部讨论”，以确保节目不会被视为“纵容暴力”。
“我们希望展现的是，这些常常被边缘化或贴上‘社会弃儿’标签的年轻人，也只是会担忧、会挣扎、会真正成长的普通青年，”他说道。
Netflix dating show featuring cast members with criminal pasts sparks backlash in Japan
August 21, 2026 / 11:03 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Japan’s justice ministry said Friday it will cancel a collaboration with a controversial Netflix dating show featuring ex-juvenile delinquents, following backlash against what some called the glorification of crimes.
Earlier this month, the ministry launched an unusual partnership with the streaming giant’s “Badly in Love,” releasing a poster starring its Season 2 cast members, including heavily tattooed men and women.
“Badly in Love” spotlights Japan’s so-called “yankii” (delinquent) subculture by lodging together young men and women with wild and often criminal pasts, including former yakuza gangsters and motorcycle gang members.
“In Japan’s first dating show for rebellious yankiis, 11 singles butt heads, forge bonds and live together for 14 days as they go all out to find the one,” the show’s description reads on its website.
Since its release in December, the show has proven an unexpected global hit, with Netflix saying its Season 1 maintained a weeks-long top-10 presence in South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The show’s Season 2 is currently the top-ranked program in Japan, Netflix said.
This picture taken on April 17, 2026, shows “Badly in Love” Season 1 participant Shunya Tsukahara posing at an event in Tokyo. Yuichi YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images
“At times, it feels like Japan’s answer to MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore,’ another series that centered a maligned subculture and dared viewers to look closer,” according to a 2025 review of the series in the Japan Times.
The ministry’s rehabilitation bureau had justified the campaign on grounds that the show’s depictions of participants’ harsh upbringing, atonement and personal growth jibe with its belief that “a person can change.”
The ministry promoted the program – which says it aims to showcase “people who are unapologetically themselves” — as part of the campaign, and the show will continue to air without the government’s support.
“It was never the intention of this collaboration to endorse crime or delinquency, nor to glorify or trivialize these acts from someone’s past,” the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
“But we have received a lot of concerns and criticism that it can cause discomfort among people victimized by crimes,” it said, adding that the partnership will be terminated.
“Badly in Love” Season 2 came under fire after an episode aired in which one cast member confessed that, as a teen, he had been arrested for setting someone on fire to prove he was “not chickening out.”
The cancellation of the campaign, however, “isn’t meant to deny efforts to help rehabilitate people who committed crimes in the past,” the ministry said.
This picture taken on April 17, 2026, shows “Badly in Love” Season 1 participant Otoha posing at an event in Tokyo. Yuichi YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images
“Badly in Love” executive producer Dai Ota told AFP in April that prior to running Season 1, the production team had “extensive internal discussions” to ensure the show would not be perceived as “condoning the violence.”
“Our hope was to show that these young people — who have often been marginalized or labeled as ‘social outcasts’ — are simply youths who worry, struggle and genuinely grow,” he said.