SummaryLiving in the prison is very lonely. Takeshima Tsuyoshi always looks forward to receive letter from his brother Naoki. Without realizing how the society treat Naoki differently as a criminal’s brother, Tsuyoshi keep writing until Naoki decide this must come to the end.
Cast
Takayuki Yamada, Sawajiri Erika, Tamayama Tetsuji
Being a criminal’s brother, Naoki had to face something he don’t deserve to which is the different treatment by people around him a.k.a the society. He was laid off from work for few times when people knew about his brother. He lost a career as a comedian and he even lost the woman he love, Asami. He was transferred to warehouse after the management learnt of his background. Naoki felt angry being generalized he wish to run away to someplace where people won’t treat him differently. All this while both Naoki and Tsuyoshi replied to each other letters until a day Naoki felt tired and stop replying. Tsuyoshi was waiting and waiting for letters and always ended up disappointed when there’s no letter for him everytime the prison staffs came with letters. A fellow workmate of Naoki once said.. the prison is a really lonely place. Indeed Tsuyoshi is lonely without a letter from his brother. Yumiko, a girl who was interested with Naoki before he became a comedian always stay besides him. She even write a letter to Naoki’s workplace management about his unfair transfer. A person went to see Naoki and said that don’t ever wish to find a way he won’t be generalized but try to survive here. It is later shown that all this while, Yumiko has been sending mail to Tsuyoshi in behalf of Naoki. Naoki then married Yumiko and got a daughter and he also started replying mail to the brother again. Until one day when he learned that his wife and small daughter is being outcasted by the neighbourhood that he decided to put everything to an end. He wrote a last letter to his brother explaining how he’s being treated all this while, how he lost a woman he loved and now even his family is being treated like that too and he don’t wish Yumiko and their daughter Miki to experience what he always experience all this time. “don’t send me anymore letter and even if you’re being released please don’t find us”. Yuusuke, once Naoki’s comedy partner invited him to assist him doing a skit in his brother’s prison. After being persuaded, he agreed. That day, he performed in front of the prisoners. He couldn’t see Tsuyoshi among the many people. They jokes around and he then see his brother with both of his hand glued together asking for forgiveness, with tears draining continuously of his eyes. The jokes then start centering around brother.
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The movie is really real. It doesn't take the very high moral ground by condemning directly people who generalize others even when they are innocent. Instead, it explain about the nature of human beings who will try their best to put a distance between themselves and bad things. It's just like how people treat people suffering HIV. They know it won't transfer by shaking hands etc but it's human nature to put a distance. It also brought up the value that there is no use to run and find a place where people won't generalize us but we have to try to survive at the place where we are now and someday at someplace there will be person who'll link to us. I was actually sad to see how society can be that mean to a criminal's relative when he's not the one doing it. It's unfair. But the message bear a truth in it... if one keeps running away, keeps condemning the society, would things be solved. the world is indeed full of unfairness but that doesn't mean for us to give up. I cried at the end part of the movie, the tears of Tsuyoshi really shows how he regret putting Naoki in that kind of situation. and how lonely would it be to live in that kind of place and being informed that he's casted away by his only family. It's just too painful.
“He really is childish. Bad character, not popular with the girls, anything he does ends up being a failure. He was like a bulky garbage.”
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“But since we are already brothers, it's impossible to treat him like rubbish..he’ll always be my elder brother… forever…forever…”
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The movie is really real. It doesn't take the very high moral ground by condemning directly people who generalize others even when they are innocent. Instead, it explain about the nature of human beings who will try their best to put a distance between themselves and bad things. It's just like how people treat people suffering HIV. They know it won't transfer by shaking hands etc but it's human nature to put a distance. It also brought up the value that there is no use to run and find a place where people won't generalize us but we have to try to survive at the place where we are now and someday at someplace there will be person who'll link to us. I was actually sad to see how society can be that mean to a criminal's relative when he's not the one doing it. It's unfair. But the message bear a truth in it... if one keeps running away, keeps condemning the society, would things be solved. the world is indeed full of unfairness but that doesn't mean for us to give up. I cried at the end part of the movie, the tears of Tsuyoshi really shows how he regret putting Naoki in that kind of situation. and how lonely would it be to live in that kind of place and being informed that he's casted away by his only family. It's just too painful.
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