Bashing
A hero to the world but shunned in her own country.
2006 · 1h 22m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Masahiro Kobayashi
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.
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