Former Criminal - Newcomer Protection Department·Agawa Kayo-

Kasumi Arimura will star in the movie and Japanese drama of the same name adapted from the popular manga "Ex-Con". The director is Zenyuki Kishi, who won many awards for "Ah, Wilderness" in 2018. "Ex-Con" is a comic work by the famous writer Kagawa Yuki. Kagawa Yuki is active in the Japanese film and television industry, comics industry and many other fields. In terms of film scripts, he has created "Scissor Man", "Marriage Fraudster", "Yangnoki", etc., and in comics, he has representative works such as "Forensic Asahi". "Ex-Con" began serialization in 2018, focusing on people with criminal records and describing how they return to society. This time, the role played by Arimura Kasumi is the protection department who assists these people. The protection department is a national civil servant on the surface, but in fact it is a volunteer without any remuneration. The movie version of "Ex-Con" will be released in 2022, and WOWOW will broadcast the Japanese drama version first in the fall of 2021.