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

2006

1h 22m

6.2(12 votes)

Drama

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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Monkey Town Productions

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Cast & crew

6 featured cast members

Starring

Fusako Urabe

Fusako Urabe

Yuko

Ryuzo Tanaka

Ryuzo Tanaka

Father

Nene Otsuka

Nene Otsuka

Stepmother

Kikujiro Honda

Kikujiro Honda

Boss

Teruyuki Kagawa

Teruyuki Kagawa

Hotel Manager

Takayuki Katô

Koibito

Creative team

Directed by: Masahiro Kobayashi
Written by: Masahiro Kobayashi

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