Under the Open Sky (2020) on Netflix
Masao Mikami leaves prison after thirteen years for murder. He asks a television company to trace the mother he lost as a child, and the director Tsunoda begins filming his life.
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Plot summary
Masao Mikami has spent much of his adult life in and out of prison, and at middle age he is free again after thirteen years for a murder. A lawyer and his wife host him for dinner on his first night out. At the welfare office a case worker questions his past, and Mikami collapses and is sent to a hospital, where he is told to take it easy or risk a heart attack or stroke. He wants to find the mother he was separated from in childhood, and a young television director, Tsunoda, begins filming interviews with him. Manual labor in his new apartment puts him back in the hospital, and the licensing center tells him his driving license expired ten years ago and he must test again.
Cast
- Kosuke Tanaka
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Under the Open Sky (2020)
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- Director Miwa Nishikawa did her own research, as author Ryozo Saki had interviewed criminals for his books. She looked into how prison life had changed since the novel was written decades ago, visiting Asahikawa Prison in Hokkaido, where Mikami served his time, interviewing organized crime members, and updating the 1990 book's story to modern times.
