Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
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The inexplicable disappearance of a 13-year-old Japanese girl prompts a 20-year international investigation that eventually leads to North Korea in directors Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim's harrowing tale of a most unusual abduction. It was a typical day in 1977 when adolescent student Megumi… More The inexplicable disappearance of a 13-year-old Japanese girl prompts a 20-year international investigation that eventually leads to North Korea in directors Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim's harrowing tale of a most unusual abduction. It was a typical day in 1977 when adolescent student Megumi Yokota vanished from the Japanese coastline without a trace. Abducted by North Korean spies and spirited away to an unfamiliar land, Yokota would spend two decades on the Korean Peninsula as her parents embarked on a frantic and desperate search for their missing daughter. Award-winning filmmaker Jane Campion (The Piano) produces this remarkable tale of one girl's incredible intercontinental ordeal, and her parent's staunch refusal to give up hope even in their darkest hour. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan
- Written By
- Patty Kim
- Genres
- Documentary, Art House & International, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 24, 2006 Limited
- Studio
- Safari Media
Critic Reviews
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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
This superb, quite moving film combines interviews, news footage and some reality TV-like sequences and works on a number of levels.
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Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly
... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark.
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker
The events that unfold in the new documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story could have been told as fiction, but they would have seemed too much -- too unbelievable, too merciless.
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
There's no denying the fascinating nature of the story, about a 13-year-old Japanese girl whose mysterious 1977 disappearance was ultimately credited to nothing less than a kidnapping by North Korean spies.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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.
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