Trailer: ‘Mask Ward’


By   |  Feb 21, 2020

‘Mask Ward’ (仮面病棟) is a 2020 Japanese thriller directed by Hisashi Kimura.

Based on a novel by Mikito Chinen, the film revolves around a doctor and a patient who try to escape from a hospital after it is taken over by a masked man with a gun. The cast includes Kentaro Sakaguchi, Mei Nagano, Rio Uchida, Noriko Eguchi, and Ryohei Otani.

Synopsis: Shugo Hayami (Kentaro Sakaguchi) is a doctor at a nursing hospital, which was once a psychiatric hospital. One evening, when Shugo Hayami is on night duty, a man in pierrot mask breaks into the hospital and he is not alone. He is with Hitomi Kawasaki (Mei Nagano). She is a university student and she has been shot by the masked man. The masked man tells Shugo Hayami to treat Hitomi Kawasaki. He also takes hostage the 64 people in the hospital. Soon, Shugo Hayami and Hitomi Kawasaki try to escape from the hospital and they encounter mysterious cases one at a time.

‘Mask Ward’ opens across Japan on March 6, 2020.

Synopsis by AsianWiki.

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