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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sagewood Cinema Ventures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sagewood Cinema Ventures
  • 1 h 25 m
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

Summary Japan, 1977. A dark, lonely road leads to the windswept shores. This is the remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted on her way home from school by North Korean spies. For 20 years, her parents had no idea what had happened to her or if she was even alive. Then, one day the whole world learned the shocking truth. (Safari...

Directed By: Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan

Written By: Patty Kim

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sagewood Cinema Ventures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sagewood Cinema Ventures
  • 1 h 25 m

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Japan, 1977. A dark, lonely road leads to the windswept shores. This is the remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted on her way home from school by North Korean spies. For 20 years, her parents had no idea what had happened to her or if she was even alive. Then, one day the whole world learned the shocking truth. (Safari...

Directed By: Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan

Written By: Patty Kim

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In a time when American TV is full of stories of missing loved ones, Abduction keenly explores the reactions of an altogether different society and also examines the universal, excruciating pain suffered by such victims and their families everywhere.
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The filmmakers have loftier goals, though, and in the end their existential tabloid style justifies itself. Abduction isn't about what happened, but about the painful introspection that is sparked by not knowing.
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75
Abduction uses interviews, vintage photos and re-creations to tell the sad story of love and hope in riveting, suspenseful style. So powerful is this film, it brought tears to my eyes.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Sometimes too ominous for its own good.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
70
Abduction sheds light onto one of the strangest episodes in recent Asian history, but the murk that hangs over North Korea is still too deep for much light to penetrate.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
70
Looks, sounds and fascinates like an exceptional episode of a true-crime TV series.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
67
This is a fascinating, underreported piece of recent world history, but Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan's documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story doesn't do it full justice.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Safari Media
Release Date Jan 12, 2007
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline One girl. Two nations. The shocking truth.
Website http://safarimedia.net/
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Awards

Austin Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Omaha Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Slamdance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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