# Doing Time (2002)

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**Original title**: *刑務所の中*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Yōichi Sai
**Written by**: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Yōichi Sai, Wishing Chong
**Starring**: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomorowo Taguchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshifumi Muramatsu, Ito Yozaburo

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a movie that thinks prison is like summer camp. A man is sent to a minimum-security prison where the inmates have settled into a highly structured, if dull, routine. The film certainly gives you a lot of time to ponder its themes.

**Mood tags**: cozy, outsider

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