Vivant (ヴィヴァン, stylized as VIVANT) is a TBS drama that started airing on 16 July 2023, starring Masato Sakai.

The screenplay was written by Katsuo Fukuzawa, who is also the director. Fukuzawa was also director of Hanzawa Naoki and Black Pean. The storyline was not revealed until the first episode aired. By air time, the cast also was still being revealed. The drama has as co-stars Hiroshi Abe, Fumi Nikaido, Tori Matsuzaka, and Koji Yakusho. Additional cast include Kento Hayashi, Ryo Ryusei, Rin Takanashi and Rei Dan. At the end of the first episode, the appearance of Arashi's Kazunari Ninomiya was revealed.

Plot
Yusuke Nogi, Chief of Energy Development Division 2 at Marubishi Corp., finds out that an erroneous transfer of US$ 100 million (=13 billion yen) has been made, as he is suspected of being the one who did it. With the information given by his friend in the CIA, Nogi sets out to search for the culprit. That takes him to the Republic of Balka, in central Asia. When he is confronting Al-Zaer, he asked Nogi if he was "Vivant", leaving Nogi looking confused. Nogi is suspected by the local police of causing an explosion when with Al-Zaer, of which he barely escapes and is rescued by Inspector Nozaki. They end up at the hospital where Dr. Yuzuki works. In the hospital, the police are looking for Nogi and Nozaki, and, together with Yuzuki, end up arrested and driven away. But, in reality, they are being rescued by Nozaki's friend Drum. Still persecuted by the police, they all manage to arrive at the Japanese Embassy.Inside the Embassy, Nozaki continues trying to reveal the mystery of the word "Vivant", and comes up with a different reading: "Beppan", meaning "another group". However, this "another group" could mean a government agency not officially recognized, a secret identity (as in a spy), or a different personality, this last one something that could be of importance, given the "other" Nogi that has appeared in front of only him. Back in Japan, Nogi and Nozaki enlist the help of Shōta Tōjō, a Detective in the Cybercrime Division of the Metropolitan Police. They discover the origin of the transference, but Nozaki assumes that the one who supposedly made it could not have done it, because of his lack of expertise in the area of computers. But they continue to dig through the information, and it is revealed that the one that actually did the transference is a hacker by the name of Riho Ohta, a member of the company's finance department, who received instructions from Isao Yamamoto. Nogi discovers the image of Yamamoto in a photo, and learns he is a monitor of a terrorist group called "Tent" that is targeting countries around the world, with Japan as their next target. Yamamoto tries to escape, but ends up being tied up. Shun Kurosu appears in front of Yamamoto, and reveals he is part of Beppan, as is his senior, Nogi.

Nozaki, continuing his investigation on "Beppan", "Tent", and all things related, discovers Yamamoto's hanged body, along with a suicide note. When he finds out no surveillance cameras are active, he begins to become suspicious about Nogi, since he knew about Yamamoto's identity. Both Nogi and Nozaki go to Balka, the first (as Beppan) under the guise of a Marubishi Shōji business trip, the latter seeking the help of Balkan police. Nogi secretly follows Nozaki to get information about Ali, GLF'S CEO and revealed Tent senior executive, and gets to him, before Nozaki. Since Nozaki couldn't get to Ali, he begins to investigate Nogi, and the result just adds to the mystery behind Nogi (or Hayato Tango, as revealed by Nozaki's contact at the FBI). Nozaki learns that young Nogi was raised in an orphanage, and later trained at a military school, graduating with high notes. Nozaki heads to Nogi's family home, and talks to his uncle, Hiromichi. Nogi's father, Suguru, was a policeman that took his family to Balka on an Agricultural mission after retiring from police service. Nogi's mother was killed there trying to protect him (a recurring memory of Nogi), and his father was believed to have died in a civil war. Hiromichi shows Nozaki a katana sword, that has been in the family for generations, holding the family crest... which is also the symbol used by Tent. Somewhere else, Nogi had Ali bound, and threatens him with killing his family for information on Tent's leader. Nogi shows Ali a photo, and Ali tells Nogi that that is Nogōn Beki, Tent's leader. But that is not the only thing. After seeing another photo Nogi has below the first one, the one of his own family, Ali asks him why he had a photo of a young Beki, revealing that Nogōn Beki and Suguru Nogi are the same person. After that, the image of a meeting room is revealed, with Beki at the end of a conference table, and his son (Ninomiya, his name still not revealed), sitting next to him, asking "Father, are you sure you want to start?". The scene zooms out to reveal the Tent logo / Nogi family crest on the wall.

Tent starts its members' conference, revealing a money skimming. Beki kills the embezzler in one stroke of a katana.
Nogi frees Ali and his family, asking to forgive him for doing what we did, for it was the only way he could ensure a favorable result. After seeing Nogi's true intentions, before leaving, Ali hands Nogi a piece of paper with a set of numbers on it, which he has to decipher in a short time.
In a hotel room in Saudi Arabia, Nogi reflects on his past life, causing a conflict between him and his alter ego (F). F was born out of Nogi's necessity to be strong due to the circumstances he was living in at the time. F calls Nogi an idiot for believing Beki is still the man who was his father, and tells him he should kill him, but Nogi says he wants to meet and talk with him, for he is his father, even if he is the leader of Tent. F says that what Nogi seeks from Beki (love), he already has in Yuzuki and Jamin, the Balkan girl that (with her father) had saved him when he first went to Balka. Now they were being protected by him.
Sakurai confirms to Nogi that he is being investigated by Nozaki. Nozaki learns that Suguru Nogi was, in fact, one of his seniors in the police. 
While Ohta is received by Kurosu, after freeing her from jail, and starts working with him on the number list (a QR code), Yuzuki is in the hospital where Jamin is being operated on. Nogi sees them and has a flashback of his own family. Time is running out for both sides, but end up favorably.
Nozaki has Nogi followed and Ohta's buliding surveilled. Ohta threatens to kill herself, sure that they are friends of Yamamoto, who assaulted and took advantage of Ohta. But Nogi and Kurosu show her what really happened and prove to her that Yamamoto is also their enemy. Shinjō arrives at the apartment and rings the bell, alerting Nogi. At the insistence, Ohta opens the door, and Shinjō serves her a search order, but finds nothing, except Nogi "ready to eat". Shinjō reunites with Nozaki, who is sure there is a secret room.
There is a meeting at the bidding venue of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.. Nogi's section and another district's business (Kurosu's) are awarded, and the meeting ends, with the person in charge telling the named companies' people to stay. Nogi, Kurosu and other 4 people are the only ones remaining. The venue's doors are closed, and the true meeting starts, with the entrance of Sakurai.

Cast

Main Cast 
Masato Sakai as Yūsuke Nogi (Energy Development Division 2's Chief)
Hiroshi Abe as Mamoru Nozaki (Metropolitan Police Department, Foreign Affairs Inspector)
Fumi Nikaido as Kaoru Yuzuki (WHI's Medical Doctor)

Marubishi Corporation 
Takaya Sakoda as Isao Yamamoto (Energy Development Division 1's Chief)
Robin Furuya as Ryō Mizugami (Energy Development Division 2)
Ai Iinuma as Riho Ohta (Finance Division)
Satoshi Hashimoto as Tomohiko Hara (Chief Accountant)
Enya Ichikawa as Tetsuya Usami (Energy Business Division's General Manager)
Kunito Watanabe as Koji Kawai (Systems Management)
Fumiyo Kohinata as Toshihiko Nagano (Managing Director)

Metropolitan Police Department
Ryo Ryusei as Kōtarō Shinjō (Detective, Public Security Bureau)
Yajūrō Bandō as Yūtarō Sano (Director, Public Security Bureau)
Kenta Uchino as Shō Suzuki (Detective, Public Security Bureau)
Gaku Hamada as Shōta Tōjō (Detective, Cybercrime Division)

Beppan
 Tori Matsuzaka as Shun Kurosu (Agent, engineer as cover job)
 Midoriko Kimura as Satomi Sakurai (Commander)
 Emisaburō Ichikawa as Akitoshi Takada (Agent, bureaucrat as cover job)
 Ryō Tamaki as Mizuki Hirose (Agent, system engineer as cover job)
 Yūsuke Hirayama as Mitsugu Wada (Agent, salesman as cover job)
 Jun Nishiyama as Kazuteru Kumagai (Agent, engineer as cover job)

Nogi's family
Koji Yakusho as Suguru Nogi (Yūsuke's father at present day), also Nogōn Beki (see "Tent")
Kento Hayashi as Suguru Nogi (Yūsuke's father in younger days)
Jun Inoue as Hiromichi Nogi (Yūsuke's uncle at present day)
Rin Takanashi as Akemi Nogi (Yūsuke's mother in younger days)

Balkan Republic 
Takashi Yamanaka as Ali Khan (GLF's CEO)
Ganbold Erkhembayar as Al-Zaer (Terrorist organization's leader)
Khongorzul Nandin-Erdene as Jamīn (a girl with congenital heart defects) 
Khatanzorig Tsaschikher as Adiel (Jamīn's father)
Batbold Barslkhagva as Genghis (Police officer)
Rin Ma as Saihan Ilya (Nurse)
Drum Tomisakae as Drum (Person that helped Mamoru Nozaki)
Rei Dan as Eiko Nishioka (Japanese Ambassador to Balkan Republic)

Tent 
Koji Yakusho as Nogōn Beki (the leader of Tent), also Suguru Nogi (see "Nogi's family")
Kazunari Ninomiya as Nökör  (Nogōn Beki's son and the subleader of Tent)
Mitsuo Yoshihara as Piyo (leading staff)
Yasufumi Hayashi as Batraca (member)
Hajime Inoue as Sici (member)
Haruka Uchimura as Mata (member)

Others 
Martin Starr as Sam (CIA)
Charles Glover as Robert (FBI)

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Nichiyō Gekijō