Penance

2010 NR 1 Season

After a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends and then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls, the victim's mother demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.

Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Genre: Crime & Thriller Series · Drama Series · Horror

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5 Episodes

1 - S01E01 1 h 16 min

Tragedy strikes when Emili is shockingly murdered by a mysterious stranger. The other four girls present at the scene of the crime are unable to remember the killer’s face and the crime goes unsolved. Fifteen years later Sae is paid a surprise visit.

2 - S01E02 51 min

Maki is now a teacher at an elementary school and trains in self-defense techniques in her off-time. When an attacker arrives at her school, Maki jumps into action to confront him, triggering a chain of unforeseen repercussions.

3 - S01E03 51 min

Akiko has withdrawn from society and lives a reclusive life at home. When her Koji, her brother, moves back home from Tokyo with his wife and stepdaughter, Akiko begins to notice signs of a strange relationship between the girl and Koji.

4 - S01E04 51 min

When Yuka was a child, her mother always favored Yuka’s sickly older sister Mayu. Now the successful proprietor of a flower shop, Yuka is still consumed by jealousy. When Mayu marries a kindly policeman, Yuka concocts a vengeful plan to seduce him.

5 - S01E05 1 h 16 min

Fifteen years since the murder of her daughter, Asako is still overtaken with grief and resentment. One day she receives a vital new clue as to the identity of Emili’s killer and finds herself in an unexpected location from her own past.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's eerie, intense psychological thriller Penance (Shokuzai) unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim's unhinged mother Asako demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.

Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Genre: Crime & Thriller Series · Drama Series · Horror
Original title: Shokuzai
Languages: Japanese