The final episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Diamonds Sleeping in the Sea " (Sunday 9pm) starring actor Ryunosuke Kamiki was broadcast on December 22nd, and the "true identity" of Reo, the character played by Kamiki, became a hot topic on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers
"There's something I want to show Izumi ( Nobuko Miyamoto)." Izumi watches a video of Hashima Island that Reo had prepared for her. In the video, she sees herself as a young man and Shinpei (Saito Takumi).
After watching the video for a while, Izumi spots Teppei (Kamiki, playing two roles) and exclaims excitedly, "Teppei! Teppei!"
When Reo, who had seen Teppei's video, asked, "Am I... well... similar?", Izumi answered firmly, "No, I'm not similar." She revealed, "When I first met Reo, I was fighting with my kids and had run away from home, and then I saw you looking like Teppei... that's what I saw."
So far, various theories have been circulating online about the relationship between Reo and Teppei. On social media, comments such as "It's the most shocking thing that Reo was not involved in the whole thing," "I'm shocked that Teppei and Reo were not related...," "The most shocking thing about the final episode was that Reo had no connection to Teppei or his family. I was like, wow, seriously?" and "In the end, Reo had no connection to the people of Hashima."
