Bashing

Bashing

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

2006•1h 22m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(11)

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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Production

Monkey Town Productions

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Fusako Urabe

Fusako Urabe

Yuko

Ryuzo Tanaka

Ryuzo Tanaka

Father

Nene Otsuka

Nene Otsuka

Stepmother

Kikujiro Honda

Boss

Teruyuki Kagawa

Teruyuki Kagawa

Hotel Manager

Takayuki Katô

Koibito

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