The drama series "Punch Drunk Woman - XX Days Left Until Prison Break" (NTV, Sunday 10:30 pm) starring actress Ryoko Shinohara has released a synopsis and stills for the third episode, which will be aired on January 25th.
"I didn't kill my father." Kozue Fuyuki (Shinohara), a prison guard who serves as the head of the female section of Hikawa Detention Center, is disturbed by the words of Reiji Kusaka (Jesse), who has been detained on suspicion of murdering his father. "Let me out of here. I didn't do it," Reiji claims his innocence. If that's true, why doesn't he tell his lawyer? When Kozue presses him, Reiji simply says, "I can't say." Reiji's fingerprints were found on the knife used in the crime, and there are reports of eyewitnesses at the scene, making the possibility of his innocence extremely low. But Reiji's words won't leave Kozue's head.
Meanwhile, Reiji approaches Takashi Numata (Yuki Kubota) and Naoya Saijo (Hisato Kokubo), followers of Hiroyasu Yoroizuka (Yamato Kawachi), a death row inmate who is plotting an escape. He asks them to join him in the fight.
Shortly afterwards, a hostage situation occurs in the detention center, and Kozue and Reiji are taken hostage. Mitsuhashi Hiroyuki (Horiuchi Ken) is a man who demands a retrial in exchange for Kozue's life, but what is his goal?
The drama is an original story inspired by a true story from overseas, in which a female prison guard helped a male inmate escape and ran away with him. The script is by Yoshihiro Izumi, who has worked on "Laughing Matryoshka" and other works, and the director is Tsuyoshi Nakakuki, who has worked on "The Unforgettable 'I'" and "Secret Mitsuko-san," and Seiichi Nagumo, who has worked on "Waru" and "The Reluctant Preacher."
