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Bashing

Masahiro Kobayashi
Japan      82 m.
Synopsis

Masahiro Kobayashi took his inspiration from a true event for this film, competitor at the Cannes Festival: the kidnap of activist Nahoko Takoto by Islamic terrorists. However, the real subject of the film is the intransigence of Japanese society and how she was judged simply because she had survived.

Director
Masahiro Kobayashi
Screenplay
Masahiro Kobayashi
Production
Monkey Town Productions, Celluloid Dreams, Bio-Tide Films, Océan Films
Photography
Koichi Saito
Edition
Naoki Kaneko
Music
Masahiro Kobayashi
Cast
Fusako Urabe, Nene Ohtsuka, Takayuki Kato, Kikujiro Honda, Ryuzo Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa
Format
35 mm
Running Time
82 m.
Country
Japan
Year
2005
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