Limited series · Nippon TV
The Ransom is Kidnapping
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ryo Katsuji
Takeru Washio
11 eps
Miori Takimoto
Miu Washio
11 eps
Izutani Rana
Shion Washio
11 eps
Yoshi Sakō
Akito Ushikubo
11 eps
Kodai Asaka
Sosuke Kumamori
11 eps
Akito Kiriyama
Eiji Arima
11 eps
Hata Sakurako
Yuka Washio
11 eps
Aimi Satsukawa
Minato Kamei
11 eps
Sayaka Isoyama
Erika Arima
11 eps
Sei Matobu
Natsuko Tatsumi
11 eps
Kawanishi Kenshiro
Koichiro Tsuruhara
11 eps
Saori Seto
Kyoko Tsuruhara
11 eps
Ren Komai
9 eps
Ami Tomite
4 eps
Teppei Koike
2 eps
Manabu Hamada
8 eps
Inoue Hinata
3 eps
Ryunosuke Takashima
Sora Arima
5 eps
Masanari Wada
Ryota Uno
7 eps
Shinsuke Yotsuya
Yuto Hinagata
7 eps
Rin Furukawa
2 eps
Hitomi Kyan
2 eps
成島敏晴
1 eps
西川綾乃
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Ransom is Kidnapping actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Ransom is Kidnapping reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
A kidnapped girl's parents are blackmailed by the abductor into kidnapping another child to save their own daughter.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Music
- Yuuki MunakataOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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