Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Sakie Yokota
Teruaki Masumoto
Music byShoji Kameda
Production
company
Distributed bySagewood Cinema Ventures
Release date
  • January 2006 (2006-01) (Slamdance)
Running time
85 minutes
CountriesJapan
United States
LanguageEnglish

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story is an American documentary about

abducted by a North Korean agent
in 1977.

The film made its world premiere at the 2006

Hokkaido, Kanagawa, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka. It was also released in theaters in the United States, opening on August 18, 2006, at the Hollywood Arc Light Cinema
in Los Angeles.

Among its honors, this film was named best documentary at the

Hot Docs Film Festival
in Canada. In January 2009, the film was honored with the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award, one of the highest distinctions in American journalism.

The film has also been broadcast on TV, and featured in theaters in Hong Kong, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Israel, France, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Singapore and many others.

Premise

The documentary is told from the eyes of Megumi's mother and father as they learned the grave truth of their daughter's abduction, and their thirty-year search for the truth.

Awards

At a ceremony at Columbia University in New York on January 22, 2009, the filmmakers were awarded the Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton, one of the highest distinctions in American journalism.

See also

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External links

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