Hagoku

Date: From 9.00 p.m., 12 April 2017
Scriptwriter: Ikehata Shunsaku (Natsume Soseki no Tsuma, Kamogawa Shokudo, Saka no Ue no Kumo Series)
Original Work: Hagoku by Yoshimura Akira

Synopsis
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro (Yamada Takayuki) dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu (Beat Takeshi), the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. 

Cast
Beat Takeshi
Yamada Takayuki
Yoshida Yo
Mitsushima Hikari
Hashizume Isao
Katsumura Masanobu
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki
Nakamura Aoi
Matsushige Yutaka
Terajima Susumu
Watanabe Ikkei