"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.
Makoto Kiyohiro
Director
Joe Odagiri
Junpei Ishikawa
Kei Suma
Jack Harada
Seiji Chihara
Zentaro Oyamada
Shota Sometani
Ken Watanabe
Hideji Ōtaki
Akio Sasaki
Keizo Kanie
Bad Boys69%
The Mustang68%
Half Nelson66%
Bronson69%
O.G.59%
The Shawshank Redemption87%
Freedom Writers79%
Nowhere to Run65%
Reading Lolita in Tehran73%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas78%
Kiss of the Spider Woman69%
Brute Force73%
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile69%
Sing Sing74%
Starred Up70%
Holy Lands61%
Dog Pound72%
Home67%
Against the Wall61%
The United States of Leland64%
