VIVANT Actor Jun Nishiyama Posts Torture-Makeup Off-Shot After Episode 20 Reunion
The off-shot gives the audience a piece of the rescue storyline outside the broadcast, and it arrives at the point where the show still has not answered whether the Bekkan members get home, which is what episode 21 has to resolve.
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Jun Nishiyama, who plays abducted Bekkan member Kazuki Kumagai in the Sunday drama VIVANT, posted an Instagram off-shot in post-torture special makeup. The post carried the lines "Nogi-san, we've been waiting" and "Let's go home quickly." It landed after episode 20, where Yusuke Nogi and the others reached the Bekkan members. Viewers replied with messages including "Welcome back," "I'm glad you're alive," and "You did well." Episode 21 continues the mission to escape the country.
Episode 20 brought Masato Sakai's Yusuke Nogi and the rest of the team face to face with the Bekkan members they had been trying to bring back alive. Nishiyama plays Kazuki Kumagai, one of the abducted group, and the photo he posted shows the background of Shakijo with the special makeup still on from the torture scenes.
The replies under the post ran toward relief rather than plot theory: "I'm glad you're alive," "You absolutely have to come back," and one viewer writing that they cried hard when Kumagai was crying. Episode 21 keeps the escape from the country going, so the question of whether all of them reach Japan is still open.
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