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Bashing (2006)

Bashing (2006)

Drama

A hero to the world but shunned in her own country.

Release Date: 2006, June 3
Directors: Masahiro Kobayashi
Countries: Japan
Production: Monkey Town Productions
Cast: Nene Otsuka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kikujiro Honda, Fusako Urabe, Ryuzo Tanaka, Takayuki Katô

Overview:

Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than Japan, and the embarrassment of getting captured but not killed, as things of which to be brutally ashamed.

Keywords:

propaganda journalism volunteer