The Way of The Prison Guard

Takumi Sakai, a young guard at a Tokyo prison, finds a strange drawing in an inmate's cell — a symbol he's only seen in childhood nightmares. His investigation leads to an old case about a fire at a psychiatric hospital, where his father, also a prison guard, vanished without a trace twenty years earlier. In 2025, director Kensuke Yoshida crafts a hybrid of psychological thriller and family drama where prison walls become a labyrinth of memory, and professional duty clashes with personal demons. Each new cell key unlocks not a door, but another layer of the past, forcing Takumi to question his own reality and the nature of the justice he's sworn to uphold.