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Shokuzai (2012)

3,29 19 votes

Alternative titles: Penance, 贖罪

IMDb score: 7,1 (1.367)

Episodes: 5

Playing time: 4 hour and 30 minutes

Developed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Stars: Kyoko Koizumi, Yû Aoi and Eiko Koike

Origin: Japan

Releasedate: Sunday 8 January 2012

First aired on: WOWOW (Japan)

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Shokuzai plot

Shokuzai tells the story of a small Japanese village where tragedy struck fifteen years ago when primary school girl Emily was murdered by a strange man. Four classmates Emily was playing with find her body. The perpetrator is never found and the case remains unsolved. Torn with grief, Emily's mother Asako puts a sort of curse on the four girls, who say they can't remember the perpetrator's face. They will each in their own way atone for their silence.

Episodes Season 1 (2012)

  1. 1. French Doll

    8 January 2012 (54 minutes)

  2. 2. PTA Rinji Soukai

    15 January 2012 (54 minutes)

  3. 3. Kuma no Kyoudai

    22 January 2012 (54 minutes)

  4. 4. To Tsuki to Oka

    29 January 2012 (54 minutes)

  5. 5. Tsugunai

    5 February 2012 (54 minutes)

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Actors and Actresses

Asako Adachi

Sae Kikuchi

Maki Shinohara

Akiko Takano

Emiri Adachi

Sae Kikuchi (child)

Maki Fujiwara (child)

Akiko Takano (child)

Yuka Ogawa (child)

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Donkerwoud

  • 8660 messages
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The premise of four mentally damaged girls and one grieving mother has been cleverly found and thus offers the perfect impetus for macabre psychological terror. Unfortunately, the built-up expectations are only occasionally fulfilled, because the overarching mystery turns out to be no more than a wafer-thin framework from which to hang various stories. The ladies in the story are never really evenly matched, while the suggestion is always made in a somewhat weak way that this would be the case. All this results in a reasonably entertaining five-part series in which at times comes to the surface what a masterpiece could have been achieved here, with a sharper written scenario and slightly less arbitrariness in plot twists.

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Dievegge

  • 3166 messages
  • 8187 votes

This Japanese miniseries is a well-constructed thriller. The murder of Emili, who serves as a coat rack, is shown from a different point of view in each episode. In the first four episodes, one girlfriend of the victim is central, fifteen years later as an adult. In the fifth episode, the mother herself comes to the fore for the ultimate confrontation with the past.

The common thread is that every time a woman takes revenge on an abusive man. I liked the first two episodes the best, but it remains exciting until the end, with a surprising twist every now and then. It is calmly and stylishly constructed, with attention to psychology and a limited number of action scenes as a climax.

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