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Doing Time is a film of genre Drama directed by Yoichi Sai with Tsutomu Yamazaki
Doing Time (2002)
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Add to a movie listDoing Time (刑務所の中, Keimusho no Naka) is a 2002 film directed by Korean-Japanese film director Yōichi 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.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Tsutomu Yamazaki
(Hanawa)
Teruyuki Kagawa
(Igasa)
Tomorowo Taguchi
(Tanabe)
Yutaka Matsushige
(Koya)
Kenichi Endō
(Nakata)
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