A hero to the world but shunned in her own country.
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.
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
Cast: Fusako Urabe, Ryuzo Tanaka, Nene Otsuka, Kikujiro Honda, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takayuki Katô
A hero to the world but shunned in her own country.
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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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 soci…
1h 22m
June 3, 2006
Masahiro Kobayashi
Fusako Urabe, Ryuzo Tanaka, Nene Otsuka
Drama