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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Directed byPatty Kim
Chris Sheridan
Written byPatty Kim
Chris Sheridan
Produced byJane Campion
Patty Kim
Chris Sheridan
StarringShigeru Yokota
Sakie Yokota
Teruaki Masumoto
Music byShoji Kameda
Production
company
Safari Media
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 Megumi Yokota, a Japanese student who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977.

The film made its world premiere at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival and has won numerous awards. It was made by Canadian journalists Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim made and released in 37 theaters in Tokyo and 17 other prefectures, including 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 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas and won the audience award at the Omaha and Slamdance Film Festivals in 2006. The film has been shown at some of the largest festivals all over the world including the Sydney Film Festival in Australia, the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam in The Netherlands and 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.

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The documentary is told from the eyes of Megumi's mother and father as they spend nearly thirty years searching for the grave truth about their daughter's abduction.

Awards

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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.

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