Bashing (2005)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Fusako Urabe	...	Yuko
	Nene Ohtsuka	...	Yuko's step mother
	Takayuki Katô	...	Koibito
	Kikujirô Honda	...	Father's Boss
	Ryûzô Tanaka	...	Yuko's father
	Teruyuki Kagawa	...	Hotel-shihainin

Storyline

Yuko volunteered to be an aid worker in Iraq and was taken hostage there. When freed she returned to Japan, but after being home six months she is still the ongoing object of harassment from her own countrymen. A co-worker finds many angry postings on the Internet denouncing her and spreads them very vocally, causing her boss let her go. He tells her that the atmosphere at the hotel where she works as a chambermaid has changed negatively as a result. Several anonymous phones are made daily to her at home where she lives with her father and stepmother, saying that she is an embarrassment and disgrace to Japan. She is even harassed by strangers on the street after buying soup at a local convenience store, ruining her dinner. Her boyfriend dumps her, calling her actions as a volunteer in a foreign country selfish, that she should have stayed in Japan and only helped her own community. Yuko's father supported her decision to go to the Middle East... Written by Brian Greenhalgh  

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