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Episode 2 of 5 - Emergency PTA Meeting Japanese master of suspense 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 (Kyoko Koizumi) demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing. Growing up in the shadow of this tragic debt, each of the four girls cultivates a warped survival mechanism - avoidance, desperation, fear and obsession

Title from title frames

Features: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi

Originally produced by Music Box Films in 2012

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In: Japanese