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Penance is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa with Kyoko Koizumi
Penance (2013)
贖罪
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Add to a movie listPenance, known in Japanese as Shokuzai (贖罪), is a Japanese television drama miniseries that started airing on WOWOW on January 2012. It is based on a novel of the same name by Kanae Minato and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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A young girl, Emili, is killed by a stranger in elementary school. Although her four friends saw the suspect, they say they don't remember it. 15 years have passed and the incident is still unsolved. Emili's mother, Asako (Kyoko Koizumi), makes them do penance for it. The series focuses on the psychological repercussions on each of the four girls, 15 years later.Actors
Kyoko Koizumi
(Asako)
Yu Aoi
(Sae Kikuchi)
Eiko Koike
(Maki Shinohara)
Sakura Andō
(Akiko Takano)
Chizuru Ikewaki
(Yuka Ogawa)
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