{"rewrite":{"id":"r_d6b49c927a829a4518366f46","clusterId":"c_9efb3a61387838d77d3d7438","slug":"yakusho-mistaken-for-vivant-shoot-while-playing-a-homeless-man","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Yakusho Mistaken For VIVANT Shoot While Playing A Homeless Man","summary":"Koji Yakusho appeared at the completion event for the Netflix series Did Anyone Say Anything About Me? in Tokyo on the 9th. He said an extra, seeing him dirty and bearded for a homeless scene, asked if he was shooting VIVANT. The series, written by Kankuro Kudo and directed by Fuminori Kaneko, follows a forgotten actor. It streams from October 22.","whyItMatters":"A veteran lead's stray-set anecdote is doing the promotional work here, and it lands because Yakusho's new role is a forgotten actor, so the mistake reads as the premise leaking into the shoot.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe series is a human comedy about Gen Takasegawa, a big-name actor forgotten by the world and his family, written by Kankuro Kudo. Yakusho said he had wanted to work with Kudo again since Kudo told him at a wrap party, \u0026#34;Let\u0026#39;s do it again,\u0026#34; and the call did not come for years. Kento Kaku, Kenichi Matsuyama, Noriko Eguchi, Hayato Isomura, Shusaku Kamikawa, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Maki Sakai and Yoko Yoshida also attended. Director Fuminori Kaneko said Yakusho does so much he worries whether it is okay to do that much.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The extra who mistook Yakusho for VIVANT was reacting to the beard and grime, not the face. That is the joke of the role: Did Anyone Say Anything About Me? casts a national star as a man no one recognizes.","twitterPost":"Yakusho plays a forgotten actor in Did Anyone Say Anything About Me? The extra who asked if he was shooting VIVANT proved the premise before the show aired.","threadsPost":"Yakusho's homeless look got him mistaken for a VIVANT shoot by someone on set. The role is a forgotten actor in Did Anyone Say Anything About Me?, and the extra who did not recognize him delivered the show's premise in real time, weeks before the October 22 premiere.","newsletterBlurb":"Koji Yakusho attended the completion event for the Netflix series Did Anyone Say Anything About Me? in Tokyo. He said an extra mistook his homeless-man makeup for a VIVANT shoot, and that he had waited years for Kankuro Kudo to call him back after a wrap-party promise. The series streams from October 22.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157135\",\"title\":\"Koji Yakusho Mistaken for \\\"VIVANT\\\" Shoot by Extra While Playing Homeless Man in New Work: \\\"Filthy and Covered in Beard\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4643,"outputTokens":578,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791527833,"createdAt":"2026-10-09T06:32:26.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T06:36:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T06:36:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9efb3a61387838d77d3d7438","canonicalTitle":"役所広司、エキストラから「VIVANT」撮影と間違えられる　新作でホームレス姿「汚れて髭だらけ」","representativeArticleId":"a_62a0d5cf6af0242aa73e39cb","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"俺のこと、なんか言ってた？\"],\"studios\":[\"Netflix\"],\"people\":[\"役所広司\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-09T05:26:26.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-09T05:26:26.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T06:36:12.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157135","title":"役所広司、エキストラから「VIVANT」撮影と間違えられる　新作でホームレス姿「汚れて髭だらけ」"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["俺のこと、なんか言ってた？"],"studios":["Netflix"],"people":["役所広司"],"type":"event","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}