The 10th episode of the Fuji TV drama series " Soda Master, " starring Takashi Sorimachi, Nao Omori, and Kenjiro Tsuda Tsuda, aired on March 18th (Wednesdays at 10 PM). Junji Takada, who plays the powerful politician Rokuro Kagami, became a hot topic on social media for being "too scary."
◇The following contains spoilers.
Yuta Yoshii (played by Sorimachi), Hajime Fujimaki (played by Omori), Kisuke Kikuhara (played by Tsuda), and Hakuba Nishino (played by Fukumoto Riko) barged into Kagami's mansion and questioned him about whether he had killed old woman Kuroe (played by Maeda Bibari Maeda) and Matilda (played by Kiryu Mao). However, Kagami remained completely unfazed and continued eating the pudding he was holding.
"Have some. This one's not too sweet and it's delicious. Eating pudding always makes me feel warm and cozy."
Kagami offered Yuta and the others pudding. "Just hypothetically, even if what you're saying is true, so what? What do you want? Why don't you just go tell the police?" he said confidently.
In response, the four pleaded, "We want the teacher to tell us the truth himself," "He should face legal consequences," "He must atone for his crimes," and "That is justice."
Kagami then spat out, "Justice? That's a word children use," and justified what he had been doing up until then by saying, "Someone has to make a decision. You have to be prepared to get dirty."
Then Kagami calmly said to Hajime, who had been chosen to direct the film, "Fujimaki-san, I hear filming is starting soon. Chairman Ishiwata (who is producing the film with his own money) knows him well. Please make it a great film. If, by any chance, the director were to step down and production were to be canceled, he would be very sad."
After that, Kagami continued to talk to each of them about their private matters, implicitly threatening them.
On social media, comments included: "Junji Takada is scary," "It's scary to see him playing a serious scary role, especially since we know the usual playful Junji Takada," "I never imagined Junji Takada, who speaks so calmly, could have this kind of presence," "Junji Takada calmly threatening with 'I know everything about you guys' is terrifying!", and "It's so refreshing to see Junji Takada not cracking any jokes."
