¡Kyokaishi
¡Japanese Movie
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[Machine Translation] Ren Osugi, who sadly passed away suddenly in 2018, produced and starred in his first and last film. The film tells the story of a "chaplain" who struggles to communicate with death row inmates who live a solitary life in solitary confinement. Veteran actors Ken Mitsuishi, Setsuko Karasuma, and Kanji Furudate play death row inmates, and Reo Tamaki makes his film debut. The film is directed and written by Dai Sako, who wrote the screenplays for "Vacation" and "The Festival of Abraxas" and directed "Running on Empty" about a prison guard on death row. --A Protestant pastor, Tamotsu Saeki. As a chaplain, he visits the detention center twice a month to meet with death row inmates who have their own peculiarities. Saeki sympathetically listens to their stories and shares the words of the Bible with them so that they can look into their own sins, repent for them, and live out the rest of their "lives" to the fullest, and face their "deaths" in peace. However, we repeatedly encounter difficulties, such as unintentionally offending them or not being able to get them to open their hearts to us. By seriously confronting the death row inmates, Saeki comes to face his own life as well. Finally, an execution order is given to one of the inmates...
Original Release Year: 2018
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