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ABDUCTION – THE MEGUMI YOKOTA STORY

Chris Sheridan / Patty Kim

USA - Japan 2006 85 Betacam Color

Film description

This is the true story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl who never returned home one dark November night in 1977. Decades later, her parents discover the bizarre truth – their daughter was abducted by North Korean spies.The film is a human drama of a mother and father’s grief and endless devotion, framed in a moving 30-year long search for their vanished child.An ordinary banker and housewife get caught up in an extraordinary international conflict; their personal tragedy lies at the center of one of today’s most talked-about, most emotionally-charged human rights and political crises in the East.

i There are no scheduled screenings.

CAST & CREW

CHRIS SHERIDAN

PATTY KIM

SPONSORS

COSMOTE
Alphabank
Fischer
Aegean

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