Penalty Loop

Penalty Loop (2024) is a Japanese sci-fi thriller from director Shinji Araki, available to watch online on iFILM. After his lover is murdered, Jun tracks down the killer and takes his revenge. The next morning, the dead man is alive again.

Jun realizes he is trapped in a time loop, waking up to the very same day and killing the very same man over and over. What begins as vengeance hardens into grim routine, and with each repetition the point of the payback starts to dissolve — how much of a person survives when revenge has no end? Yusuke Iseya leads as Jun across this lean 99-minute story. A quiet, unsettling take on the time-loop idea rather than a flashy one, made for viewers who like their genre films cold and contained. Stream Penalty Loop (2024) online on iFILM.