The fourth episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Caster " (Sunday 9:00 p.m.) starring Hiroshi Abe was broadcast on May 4th. The surprise appearance of the "man beloved by the Sunday Theatre" attracted much attention.
◇The following contains spoilers
Set in the TV station "JBN" news program "NEWS GATE," this socially conscious entertainment series pursues the truth buried in the darkness and punishes evil. Abe plays the unconventional newscaster Shindo Soichi, Nagano Mei plays the general director Hana Sakikubo Hana, who struggles despite being bossed around by Shindo, and Shunsuke Michieda of " Naniwa Danshi " plays Mei Nagano Yusuke, a rookie AD with an aspiration to be a journalist who respects Shindo.
In the fourth episode... A voyeurism scandal occurs at Kirio Girls' Junior High School, where Kaiba's ( Takashi Okabe) daughter, Akari (Yuna Takeshita), attends. At Kaiba's instruction, Sakikubo and Motohashi go to Kirio Girls' Junior High School.
On the surface, it was an interview about the basketball club, but as he listened to the students' stories, he began to suspect that the basketball club's advisor, Haga (Takahashi Tsutomu), was involved in the secret filming. For some reason, Shindo accompanied him on the interview. In fact, his daughter, Sumire (Horikoshi Reika), also attends the same junior high school... and so it turns out.
It turns out that it was actually Akari who set up the hidden camera. Akari complained to "Hiroto" whom she met on social media about her declining grades, and "Hiroto" persuaded her to cheat by saying he would get the test questions in advance. She then set up a hidden camera in the locker room after he threatened to expose her.
In fact, "Hiroto" was actually Ozu (Toru Baba), a school security guard. He had infiltrated the school posing as a security guard, used social media to get close to students, and made money by taking secret photos.
Baba, who played Ozu, has appeared in "Roosevelt Game" (2014), "Downtown Rocket" (2018), "Heaven and Hell: Two Psychos" (2021), and "VIVANT" (2023). He is known as "the man loved by Sunday Theater." This was his first Sunday Theater appearance in about a year since "Anti-Hero" (2024), and social media was abuzz with comments such as "Toru Baba is indispensable to Sunday Theater" and "Toru Baba is constantly being told that there is no way he's just an ordinary security guard."
