ESCAPE

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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: TBD
• Viewership ratings: TBD
• Broadcast network: NTV
• Broadcast period: 2025-Oct-08 to 2025-Dec-??
• 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; Kyoichi's adopted son)
• 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)

Weekly Magazine

• Yamaguchi Makiya as Shiraki Hirota (48 / Journalist)

Others

• Shida Mirai as Iwata Mirei (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

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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