is a 2005 film by Masahiro Kobayashi. It premiered at the

2005 Cannes Film Festival The 58th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica served as jury president for the main competition. Cécile de France hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Belgian filmmakers D ...

where it was nominated for the

Palme d'Or The (; ) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festiv ...

. ''Bashing'' went on to win special jury award at the Fajr Film Festival and won grand prize at Tokyo FILMeX.

Plot

Yuko Takai and a few other Japanese political activists in the Middle East were kidnapped and used as hostages. Upon returning to Japan, Yuko is mistreated for basically "making ripples in the water;" in other words, for not committing suicide and for making the Japanese look weak. This story is based on the real affairs of the kidnapping of three Japanese political activists by militia in Iraq in April 2004. Yuko Takai is a model of Nahoko Takato, a political activist, who was also harshly criticised by almost all Japanese.

Cast

* Fusako Urabe - Yuko Takai * Nene Otsuka - Noriko Takai, Yuko's step mother * Ryūzō Tanaka - Koji Takai, Yuko's father * Takayuki Katō - Ex-boyfriend * Kikujirō Honda - Father's boss * Teruyuki Kagawa - Hotel manager

References

External links

* 2005 films 2000s Japanese-language films 2005 drama films Films directed by Kobayashi Masahiro Japanese films based on actual events 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-drama-film-stub