Penance (2013)

God may forgive you, but she never will.

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.

Cast (41)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Kyoko Koizumi

Asako

Yu Aoi

Sae Kikuchi

Eiko Koike

Maki Shinohara

Sakura Ando

Akiko Takano

Chizuru Ikewaki

Yuka Ogawa

Mirai Moriyama

Takahiro Otsuki

Kenji Mizuhashi

Tanabe

Ryo Kase

Koji Takano

Tomoharu Hasegawa

Keita Murakami

Ayumi Ito

Mayu Murakami

Hirofumi Arai

Detective Moriya

Tetsushi Tanaka

Toshio Adachi

E

Erika Omata

Young Sae Kikuchi

M

Manatsu Kimura

Young Maki Fujiwara

Asumi Kikuchi

Young Akiko Takano

Kyoka Shibata

Young Yuka Ogawa

Hazuki Kimura

Emili Adachi

Chigusa Takaku

Atsuko Hirata

Aunt Yoko

Marika Matsumoto

Kaori

Shoko Takada

Seika Kuze

Sae's Mother

Narushi Ikeda

Kazuaki Shimizu

Hirota Otsuka

Teacher Maruyama

Jyonmyon Pe

Kota Yokoyama

Masayuki Adachi

Kaoru Mizuki

Maki's Mother

Kyusaku Shimada

Chika Uchida

N

Nanaka Fujii

Wakaba Takano

Kai Inowaki

Young Koji Takano

Tarō Suwa

Akiko's Father

Hitomi Takahashi

Akiko's Mother

S

Sae Abe

Mayu Ogawa

K

Kenji Uchikura

Policeman Ando

Michi Yamamura

Masaaki Akahori

Miako Tadano

Suzuhana Aoki

Shirō Shimomoto

Chikada

Teruyuki Kagawa

Hiroaki Aoki

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