Penance (2012)
- Original title
- 贖罪
- Directed by
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Genre
- Japanese television drama, thriller film, mystery fiction, horror fiction
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 5 episodes
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A group of girls are playing together when a stranger murders one of them. The other girls are unable to help identify the killer, and their guilt and trauma affect their lives for many years.
tenseunsettlingslow-burnsomberatmosphericdisturbingbroodingmysterious
What happens
Penance, known in Japanese as Shokuzai (贖罪), is a Japanese television drama miniseries that started airing on WOWOW in January 2012. It is based on a novel of the same name by Kanae Minato and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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