VIVANT Spinoff Chinggis -VIVANT THE ORIGIN STORY- Lands On U-NEXT September 20
TBS is building out the VIVANT backstory in a streaming-only format: a four-episode U-NEXT run that fills in Chinggis's orphanage years and adds foreshadowing tied to the second half of Season 2, rather than waiting to address them in the main broadcast.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
A four-episode side story about Chinggis, the elite Balka police officer from the TBS Sunday drama VIVANT, will stream on U-NEXT starting Sunday, September 20. Bokuzo Masana plays Akram, the orphanage principal, and Rena Matsui plays Naira, a teacher. The story covers Chinggis's orphanage childhood under Nogoon Beki, his first meeting with Beki, and why he became a police officer. Episodes run Sundays and Wednesday the 23rd at 9:00 PM.
The spinoff follows "Drum -VIVANT THE ORIGIN STORY-" and is billed as a completely original story about the beginning of VIVANT. It covers Chinggis's time at the orphanage run by Nogoon Beki (Koji Yakusho), the leader of the terrorist organization Tent, and the reason he wanted to become a police officer. The main visual shows young Chinggis, his younger sister Anu, and Mkhumbat and Borolma, who later become his comrades in the Balka police, walking through the desert at night by lamplight.
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- Cinema Today 「VIVANT」チンギスの前日譚ドラマ配信決定！ベキとの出会いが明らかに、正名僕蔵＆松井玲奈ら出演