Penance (2013)
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
- Released
- 2013-05-29
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 270 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 from 44 votes
Cast
- Kyoko Koizumi as Asako
- Yu Aoi as Sae Kikuchi
- Eiko Koike as Maki Shinohara
- Sakura Ando as Akiko Takano
- Chizuru Ikewaki as Yuka Ogawa
- Mirai Moriyama as Takahiro Otsuki
- Kenji Mizuhashi as Tanabe
- Ryo Kase as Koji Takano
- Tomoharu Hasegawa as Keita Murakami
- Ayumi Ito as Mayu Murakami
- Hirofumi Arai as Detective Moriya
- Tetsushi Tanaka as Toshio Adachi