Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki

The Chaplain

A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.

Drive Into Night

"Kiss me at dead of night" A story about a man and a woman who cause an irreversible situation at a family restaurant in the middle of the night.  "Imitation Yakuza" A tale of an unknown actor who, while attempting to audition for a Yakuza movie, mistakenly enters a real yakuza office, finding himself in deep trouble.  "In our own little world" A black comedy set against the backdrop of two irreconcilable classes: a romance workshop and a self-defense workshop.  These are short stories about men and women who find themselves caught up in desperate, life-changing adventures.