[vosper]

> He walked out of Japan

Even better: He escaped by hiding in a music equipment box that was carried onto a private jet

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993

[chasil]

There are two well-known documentaries about the Goshn captivity and escape from Japan.

The first is from Netflix:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81227167

The second is from Apple:

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wanted-the-escape-of-carlos-gho...

Carlos Goshn participated in the Apple documentary.

IMDB is also showing this one:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15048602/

[WeylandYutani]

There was a famous Dutch philosopher who managed to piss of the government and escaped from a castle that way (minus the private jet) in the 17th century. His wife was allowed to bring him books and he used the box to escape. He went to Paris and never got extradited either.