# Penance (2013)

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**Original title**: *贖罪*
**Runtime**: 270 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Written by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Starring**: Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Aoi, Eiko Koike, Sakura Ando, Chizuru Ikewaki, Mirai Moriyama

> *God may forgive you, but she never will.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Silence meets The Virgin Suicides when a murdered girl’s mother hexes the witnesses who forgot the killer. The four girls live under the curse they can’t escape. The mother’s grief carries the black magic of the piece.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread, slow-burn

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