Bashing

Jun 3, 2006

1h 22m

★ 6.0

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Monkey Town Productions

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Cast

Yuko

Fusako Urabe

Father

Ryuzo Tanaka

Stepmother

Nene Otsuka

Boss

Kikujiro Honda

Hotel Manager

Teruyuki Kagawa

Koibito

Takayuki Katô

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