This is the story of a man who broke out of prison four times, a feat unmatched in the history of Japan’s penal institutions.Sakuma was imprisoned for crimes that included manslaughter. But as the story unfolds, we see the struggle on one human being against the situation in which he finds himself. He uses all his will, strength, patience and cunning to escape from it, qualities that carry him through the indignities and punishments he suffers over the years.The story is based on fact. It leaves us with questions on the dignity of the individual, on punishment, on prisons, on prisoners’ rights. And asks in terms the Greeks would have understood: what is this creature Man?
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