Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki

深夜のファミレスー。 重罪を犯してしまったユイとユウジ。 ユウジは自首をしようと迫るが、どうしても捕まりたくないユイはその場から逃亡、 思いつくまま夜の街を彷徨っていく・・・。

A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.

現役住職で芥川賞作家である玄侑宗久の小説を映画化した人間ドラマ。うつに苦しみながらも、かつて熱中した音楽に向き合うことで懸命に生きようとする僧侶と、彼を温かく見守る周囲の人々の姿を描く。監督は、東京藝術大学大学院で北野武、黒沢清らに学んだ新人の加藤直輝。主演は、映画初主演となるミュージシャンのスネオヘアー。彼の妻に『ちょんまげぷりん』のともさかりえがふんするほか、ベテランの小林薫ら多彩な顔ぶれがそろう。

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

故事围绕一位教诲师和监狱死囚犯展开。