Hitoya no Toge (TV Series) DVD Box

[Machine Translation] Starring Masataka Kubota and directed by Hideyuki Hirayama! Collusion, gambling, and bullying - social suspense depicting corruption in a closed and corrupt prison! -- Rookie prison guard Ryota Takeshima (Masataka Kubota) steps into the Northern Kanto Penitentiary, which is said to have an "unlocked prison". There, he finds a prison guard who is far from justice. One day, Soichi Nakui (Seiyoshi Ozawa), a hard-working man from the Ministry of Justice, is appointed as the warden. Meanwhile, at a factory under the jurisdiction of deputy warden Iwamoto Yasutaka (Ikeda Narushi), Ryota receives a rough welcome from Jingu Korekiyo (Izumiya Shigeru), a powerful gang leader despite being a convict. Ryota is at the mercy of the "dark side of prison" and is advised by Shigeharu Akimura (Masato Hagiwara), a senior worker from the factory who is in contrast to Nakui, but is puzzled by Akimura's inexplicable behavior. All sorts of speculations are going on in the office. Nakui gives Ryota "certain instructions" to clean up the corrupt prison. Furthermore, Jingu approaches Ryota and suggests that he knows something about the death of his father, who was a prison guard. What happened to my father? What is the truth and justice in the prison, a closed world that no one knows about? Contains 6 episodes.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: making-of, interview

窪田正孝・主演×平山秀幸・監督! 癒着・賭博・いじめ―閉ざされた悪徳刑務所の腐敗を描く社会派サスペンス! ――「鍵のない牢がある」という北関東刑務所に足を踏み入れた新人刑務官・武島良太(窪田正孝)。そこで目にしたのは、受刑者のいじめの黙認、所内での賭博など正義とは程遠い刑務官の姿だった。ある日、剛腕で法務省出身の名久井惣一(小澤征悦)が看守長として着任する。 一方、副看守長・岩本康隆(池田成志)が管轄する工場では、受刑者ながら力を持つ暴力団組長・神宮是清(泉谷しげる)に良太が手荒い歓迎を受けていた。"刑務所の闇"に翻弄される良太は、名久井と対照的な現場出身の先輩・秋村繁晴(萩原聖人)に助言されるが、秋村の不可解な行動に困惑する。あらゆる思惑が交錯する所内。名久井は良太に腐敗した刑務所を一掃しようと"ある指示"をする。さらに神宮が良太に近づき、刑務官であった父の死について何か知っているかのようなことをほのめかす。 父にいったい何が? "誰も知らない閉ざされた世界" ともいえる刑務所にある正義、真実とは―。全6話収録。

映像特典: メイキング、インタビュー(約20分予定)