Doing Time
Director: Yoichi Sai
Genre: Comedy, World cinema, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 2002
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Yutaka Matsushige, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Tomorowo Taguchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ren Osugi, Kenichi Endo, Kippei Shiina, Yosuke Kubozuka, Toshifumi Muramatsu
Doing Time (刑務所の中, keimusho no naka) is a 2002 film directed by Korean-Japanese film director Yoichi Sai. Based on Kazuichi Hanawa's manga, it follows the day-to-day routine of a middle-aged inmate at a low security Japanese prison.
The film uses a series of short vignettes to portray, often with understated humour, different aspects of prison life, especially the unvarying daily routines, the highly detailed rules, and the petty obsessions and minor pleasures that occupy the inmates' thoughts and conversations.
The film is based on the manga of the same name, which relates the author's experiences during a three year prison sentence.
Hanawa is a middle aged gun enthusiast, but is jailed for three years for possession of illegal firearms. He is placed in a low security prison in Hokkaidō.
He shares a cell with four other inmates, and adjusts to the strict rules which dictate prisoners' movements in minute detail. At first he is amused by the importance that his cellmates attach to normally trivial matters, but over the course of the film he too comes to find them a way of passing the time and relieving boredom.
After a minor transgression of the rules, he is placed in solitary
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