Doing Time

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• Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
• Language(s): 日本語 (Japanese)
• Director(s): Yoichi Sai
• Cast(s): Teruyuki Kagawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Tomorowo Taguchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshifumi Muramatsu See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 33min
• Award(s): Hochi Film 2003 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: Tokyo Godfathers, Trespassers
• Story:
  When he finds himself in an Hokkaido prison for a minor firearms possession offence, it doesn't take long for Hanawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to surrender utterly to the routine, arbitrary rules and grinding sameness of life in the prison system. Indeed, he comes to find his stint in solitary confinement, cut off from fellow-inmates and with a mechanical task of creating hundreds of folded paper bags each day, a curiously satisfying experience.
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