Limited series · NHK
Maison Prison
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Eiko Koike
Ginbayashi Yoko
5 eps
Aoi Nakamura
Sugiyama Kenji
5 eps
Rie Tomosaka
Seshita Mamiko
5 eps
Reo Tamaoki
Kawaguchi Shinpei
5 eps
Mandy Sekiguchi
Bito Mamoru
5 eps
Katsuhisa Namase
Irie Takao
5 eps
Jun Kunimura
Natori Kotaro
5 eps
Yoichi Nukumizu
Takeda Teruo
5 eps
Shunya Itabashi
Umekawa Ryuji
5 eps
DOTAMA
Kuga Eito
5 eps
Takaya Yamauchi
Yabe Kengo
5 eps
Tatsumi Asa
Tsuji Hiroki
5 eps
Takashi Tsukamoto
Saito Shunichi
5 eps
Hiroki Miyake
Tango Masato
5 eps
Shono Hayama
Tabata Hajime
5 eps
Gamon Kaai
Nakatsugawa Satoshi
5 eps
Girolamo Panzetta
Lorenzo
5 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Maison Prison actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Maison Prison reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Ginbayashi Yoko is a top-class chef at a high-end Italian restaurant, but her life is turned upside down when the owner runs away with all the earnings, forcing the restaurant to close. With two children to support, she takes a job at a local men’s prison as a nutritionist, where her main duties involve planning monthly menus. Encouraged by the warden, she resolves to pursue rehabilitation through food, questioning whether people can truly change and what she herself can achieve. Thus begins her new challenge—aiming for “three-star prison cuisine.”
Where to watch
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