VIVANT Producer Kazutaka Iida Recalls Izumo Taisha Shoot Before Finale
Kazutaka Iida, producer of TBS drama VIVANT, looked back on Episode 23, which aired on the 1st, and the shoot in Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture, the hometown of Nogoon Beki (Koji Yakusho).
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Why it matters
The producer's account ties the finale to a location the show already used in Season 1, so the Izumo Taisha return reads as a deliberate closing of Beki's story rather than a new set piece.
Key Facts
- VIVANT producer Kazutaka Iida looked back on Episode 23, which aired on the 1st.
- Episode 23 was set partly in Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture, the hometown of Nogoon Beki, played by Koji Yakusho.
- Iida said Season 1 used Izumo Taisha for the scene of young Beki's wedding.
- Iida said Koji Yakusho visited Izumo Taisha for the first time during this shoot.
- The second season of VIVANT consists of 14 episodes and ends on the 8th.
Iida said the Izumo Taisha gathering of Nogi, Beki, Nokor and Chingis struck him, and that Yakusho visited the shrine for the first time during the shoot. The 14-episode second season ends on the 8th.
Izumo Taisha was not a new location for the production. Iida said Season 1 used the shrine for young Beki's wedding, and that Beki's later crossing to Balka made the character's return to Japan unlikely in the story, which is why the image of Beki there across time struck him.
Iida described Episode 23 as a very emotional episode, pointing to Nogi's identity being exposed to Kaoru as the payoff of a thread running back to Season 1. The episode also revealed that Jamin was Prisha, daughter of nuclear fusion researcher Elisha Mamadov, and gave Nogi a clue for searching information on nuclear fusion.
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Sources
- Cinema Today 「VIVANT」ベキの故郷にオールスター集結 飯田和孝P「胸を打たれた」出雲大社での撮影秘話