Author Selects: Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin: Penance (series)
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Welcome to OVID’s “Author Selects” series, where we invite an author to select a film on OVID and explain why they think you should watch it.
In our fourth installment, we welcome writer Jessa Crispin to discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa's series, Penance. Crispin is the editor of The Culture We Deserve and the author of My Three Dads from the University of Chicago Press. She currently lives in Philadelphia.
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Read her work here: jessacrispin.com and The Culture We Deserve
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Penance: Episode 1
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi • 2014 • 75 minutes
The French Doll : Tragedy strikes when Emili is shockingly murdered by a mysterious stranger. The other four girls present at the scene of the crime - Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuka - are unable to ...
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Penance: Episode 2
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi • 2014 • 50 minutes
Emergency PTA Meeting : Maki is now a relentlessly strict teacher at a elementary school and trains in self-defense techniques in her off-time to combat her overall sense of helplessness. When ...
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Penance: Episode 3
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi • 2014 • 50 minutes
Brother and Sister Bear : Akiko has withdrawn from society and lives a reclusive life at home. But things change when her brother Koji moves back home from Tokyo with his wife and step-daughter...
