ESCAPE

Details

Title: ESCAPE / エスケープ
Tagline: それは誘拐のはずだった / Sore wa Yuukai no Hazu datta
Title (English): It was supposed to be a kidnapping
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Suspense
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: TBD
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2025-Oct-08 to 2025-Dec-10
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme song: Mirror feat. Saito Kosuke by Ieiri Leo

Synopsis

Yagami Yui, also known as "Hachi", the daughter of a leading corporation's president, is kidnapped for ransom during her 20th birthday party. The plan goes awry, stunning one of the kidnappers, Hayashida Daisuke, nicknamed "Rinda". But instead of escaping, Yui pleads with him to "run away" with her. The captor and his would-be hostage team up, becoming the focus of a nationwide manhunt.

User/Viewer Ratings

4.00

(one vote)

Cast

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Main Cast

Sakurada Hiyori as Yagami Yui / Hachi (20)
Sano Hayato as Hayashida Daisuke / Rinda (24 / Kidnapper group member)

Yagami Pharmaceutical

Mamiya Hiroyuki (間宮啓行) as Yagami Kyoichi (Deceased / Founder)
Kitamura Kazuki as Yagami Keishi (55 / President; Yui's father; Kyoichi's adopted son)
Imaizumi Mai (今泉舞) as Yagami Yuka (Deceased / Keishi's wife; Yui's mother)
Tomita Yasuko as Kiryu (Yagami) Miyako (52 / Kyoichi's daughter)
Tanaka Shunsuke (田中俊介) as Fuji Sota (42 / Keishi's secretary)
First Summer Uika as Bandai Shino (35 / Yui's bodyguard)

People around Daisuke

Nonami Maho as Hayashida Tomoko (44 / Daisuke's mother)
Yuki Kousei as Yamaguchi Kenji (32 / Kidnapper group's member)
Iida Kisuke as Saito Joji (55 / Kidnapper group's leader)
Kageyama Yuka as Kosaka Riri (25 / Department store employee)

Metropolitan Police Department

Matsuo Satoru as Komiyama Taku (45 / Detective)
Hidaka Yukito as Tabata Haruki (27 / Detective)
Yoshizawa Shogo (吉澤尚吾) as Miyazono (Detective)
Sakata Masanobu as Ebihara (Chief)

Weekly Magazine

Yamaguchi Makiya as Shiraki Hirota (48 / Journalist)

YouTuber "Maamii Channel"

Kato Chihiro (加藤千尋) as Onishi Masaki (26)
Takatsuka Hiromu as Onishi Misaki (25 / Masaki's cousin)

Others

Shida Mirai as Iwata Mirei / Gan (28)
Kamio Yu as Kiryu Shinobu (52 / Miyako's husband)
Hara Sachie as Jounouchi Akira (38 / Yagami family's former housekeeper)
Abe Raito (阿部来叶) as Jounouchi Hikaru (4 / Akira's son)

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Hikawa Kayo
Chief Producer: Ogino Tetsuhiro
Producer: Akimoto Takayuki, Akashi Hiroto
Director: Komuro Naoko, Naganuma Makoto, Fuchizawa Yuki (澤由樹)
Music: Okehazama Alisa

External Links

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