The Guys from Paradise
2000 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Allegedly based on a number of true cases, The Guys From Paradise is a prison story set in the Phillipines against a background of corruption, drug trafficking and paedophilia. Central figure is Kohei Hayakawa (Koji Kikkawa), a promising young corporate upstart, sent to Paradise prison on a false charge of possession of heroin. Arriving in a suit and carrying a suitcase of his belongings as he makes his way through the dirty, overpopulated concrete corridors, he assumes his lawyer will have no problem getting him out. When the message arrives that the only thing that will make him a free man is bribe money rather than evidence of his innocence, Kohei realises his old life of luxury is over and slowly surrenders to his fate, becoming increasingly close with the community of Japanese prisoners he was adopted into upon his arrival.
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Kôji Kikkawa · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ken'ichi Endô · Hua Rong Weng · Kenji Mizuhashi · Kazuhiko Kanayama · Nene Ohtsuka · Mai Oikawa
Soundtrack Kôji Kikkawa
Screenplay Itaru Era · Izo Hashimoto · Yôji Hayashi
Cinematography Hideo Yamamoto
Original title Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi (The Guys from Paradise)
5.8
39 votes (FilmAffinity)
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