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Penance (2013)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Overview
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.
Length 270 minutes
Actors
Kyoko Koizumi | Yu Aoi | Eiko Koike | Sakura Ando | Chizuru Ikewaki | Mirai Moriyama | Kenji Mizuhashi | Ryo Kase | Tomoharu Hasegawa | Ayumi Ito | Hirofumi Arai | Tetsushi Tanaka | Erika Omata | Manatsu Kimura | Asumi Kikuchi | Kyoka Shibata | Hazuki Kimura | Chigusa Takaku | Atsuko Hirata | Marika Matsumoto | Shoko Takada | Seika Kuze | Narushi Ikeda | Kazuaki Shimizu | Hirota Otsuka | Jyonmyon Pe | Kota Yokoyama | Kaoru Mizuki | Kyusaku Shimada | Chika Uchida | Nanaka Fujii | Kai Inowaki | Taro Suwa | Hitomi Takahashi | Sae Abe | Kenji Uchikura | Michi Yamamura | Masaaki Akahori | Miako Tadano | Shirô Shimomoto | Teruyuki Kagawa