Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

Name: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Documentary
Released: January 12, 2007
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 72

2007

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Sagewood Cinema Ventures | Release Date: January 12, 2007

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 Media)

Director: Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim

Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The film unfolds with all the heart-stopping suspense of a true-crime expose that sheds light on the twisted policies of Kim Jong-il's strange and secretive nation. Read full review

Sid Smith

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. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

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. Read full review

Frank Scheck

The dramatic story is related here in a somewhat diffuse and scattershot fashion that reduces some of its impact. But there is no denying its emotional resonance. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Despite its structure, Abduction sheds light on the disturbing politics North Korea deploys to simultaneously intimidate the world and guard itself from attack. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

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. Read full review

Scott Brown

For 20 years, Megumi's family doesn't know where she is; when they find out, the frustrations and uncertainties only mount. But as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark. Read full review

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