Keimusho no naka (2002)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Yoichi Sai

Writers:

Wui Sin Chong (writer)
Kazuichi Hanawa (comic book)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Manga | Based On Comic | Prison | Based On True Story

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki	...	Hanawa
Teruyuki Kagawa
Tomorowo Taguchi
Yutaka Matsushige
Toshifumi Muramatsu
Ren Osugi
Yôzaburô Itô
Kenichi Endo
Matomu Onda
Shigemitsu Ogi
Kippei Shiina
Yôsuke Kubozuka
Houka Kinoshita
Hidekazu Nagae
Koji Enokido

Also Known As:

Doing Time (International: English title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS

Fun in solitary!

What's a guy to do when he loves guns, particularly American ones featured in movies, but he lives in a country where it's illegal to own one. Well, he ends up being sent to an institution that is more like a military academy than US prison. This very funny film studies the everyday obsessions of prisoners who have nothing left to do during their days but wonder about their next meal or contemplate their next soak in the tub. Each short film that comprises this full feature deals with the absurdities of life behind bars in Japan from a fun and humorous perspective. Everything from dropping and eraser to going to the bathroom takes on dramatic tension that it becomes laugh-out-loud funny.

P.S. for US audiences, putting soy sauce on your rice is often considered child-like in Japan.