It stars Koji Yakusho as a former yakuza who has been released from prison after serving 13 years for murder.

[4] Masao Mikami is a middle-aged former yakuza who has spent time in and out of prison, and is released after serving 13 years for murder.

He sends his inmate files and personal information to a TV company and wants them to find his mother.

The next day, Mikami tries to apply for welfare benefits but the case worker nearly denies him due to his violent past.

Mikami is adjusting to normal life, but struggles with manual labor in his new apartment and ends up back in the hospital.

Mikami is accused of shoplifting in a grocery store by an employee and gets very upset when the man raises his voice at him.

Tsunoda and his boss take Mikami out to dinner and tell him that they are filming his life because his story will touch their viewers.

He gets home and rewatches the footage, focusing on the very graphic clip of Mikami biting the man’s back.

Tsunoda, in response to Mikami’s violent outburst, calls him to say that putting him on TV is a bad idea.

Tsunoda calls Mikami, wondering where he is and that his orphanage is looking through his files and that they are getting closer to finding his mother.

In the communal showers, Tsunoda tells Mikami that he will write about him and his life, and tears up when he asks him not to go back to his old ways.

[5] [6] Miwa Nishikawa was inspired by Ryozo Saki’s novel, Mibuncho, which follows the story of a criminal after his conviction.

Nishikawa wanted to do her own personal research, similar to how Saki interviewed criminals for his books.

Nishikawa visited Asahikawa Prison in Hokkaido, where the character Mikami served his time, and interviewed many organized crime members.