Penance, a Japanese movie

I watched this movie a month ago. I heard about it a long time ago but it wasn't in the nearest theaters in my city any theaters near me and I didn't want to download the movie illegally. So I watched and waited until I forgot about it. Then in Arte, a French cultural channel, decided to show the two parts of the movie which lasted around four hours.

It's talks about a school girl getting killed by a stranger in the building where we can do people play sports. Before the girl was murdered four of his her friends saw the face of the killer. When the police asked the girls how was to describe the face of the stranger they said that they didn't remember.

After that "life goes on" for these girls until one day, when they went together to deliver a gift to Emili's house on her birthday. give a gift for the birthday of Emili (the one who died) in her house.

During "the party" the mother get got furious and said she's not going to forgive these girls because they can't remember the face of the killer, therefore thus the title "penance".

Then things get serious. We are now fifteen years later The movie cuts to the life of these girls fifteen years later. The movie is cut such that as each chapter represents the life of one girl, there's are four, and on each we see how they are going doing their penance.

It was an intriguing movie with sometimes occassional dark comedy. I highly recommend it if you like thrillers.