Kasumi Arimura will star in the movie and Japanese TV series of the same name adapted from the popular manga "The Ex-Convict". The director is Yoshiyuki Kishi, who won numerous awards in 2018 for "Ah, Wilderness". "The Ex-Convict" is a comic work by the famous writer Masahit Kagawa. Masahit Kagawa is active in many fields such as the Japanese film and television industry and the comics industry. In terms of film scripts, he has written "Scissor Man", "Marriage Fraudster", "Sheep No Ki", etc., and in terms of comics, he has representative works such as "Forensic Asagao". "The Ex-Convict" began serialization in 2018, focusing on people with a criminal record and describing how they return to society. This time, Kasumi Arimura plays the role of the Protection Officer who assists these people. The Protection Officer is ostensibly a national civil servant, but in fact he is a volunteer without any remuneration. The movie version of "The Ex-Convict" will be released in 2022, and WOWOW will broadcast the Japanese drama version first in the fall of 2021.