This superb, quite moving film combines interviews, news footage and some reality TV-like sequences and works on a number of levels.
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01/26/07
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:12
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.2/10
Synopsis: Produced by Jane Campion and directed by Christ Sheridan and Patty Kim, this documentary examines the life of Megumi Yokota, a 13-year-old girl living in 1977 Japan who is abducted by North Korean... [More]
Director: Chris Sheridan, Patty Kim
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Top Critic... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark.
01/25/07
Top CriticThe events that unfold in the new documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story could have been told as fiction, but they would have seemed too much -- too unbelievable, too merciless.
01/16/07
Top CriticThere's no denying the fascinating nature of the story, about a 13-year-old Japanese girl whose mysterious 1977 disappearance was ultimately credited to nothing less than a kidnapping by North Korean spies.
01/12/07
Top CriticAbduction uses interviews, vintage photos and re-creations to tell the sad story of love and hope in riveting, suspenseful style. So powerful is this film, it brought tears to my eyes.
01/12/07
Top CriticCanadians Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim's spellbinding documentary focuses on the relentless search for the truth by Megumi's parents and families of other abductees.
01/12/07
Top CriticThe documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story succeeds as a true crime story and is compassionate and engrossing throughout.
01/12/07
Top CriticThe temptation to juice up the squalid elements of this story would be hard to resist for most filmmakers. Yet, for the most part, [the directors] manage to balance the story's jolting, world-shaking elements with the more intimate details.
01/11/07
Top CriticAbduction unfolds as a tightly plotted mystery, and it wouldn't be fair to reveal much more than that.
01/10/07
Top CriticThe story it tells is a shattering mystery of violation and loss, if only because by the end, certain answers only lead to more punishing questions.
01/10/07
Top CriticThe documentary never finds the appropriate rhythm to match the severity of its subject matter.
01/09/07
Top CriticIt sounds like something out of a Robert Ludlum novel, but it's heartbreakingly true, as the documentary makes clear by looking at the phenomenon not from the top down or the outside in, but from the bottom up and the inside out.
11/23/06
Top CriticAbduction: The Megumi Yokota Story looks, sounds and fascinates like an exceptional episode of a true-crime TV series.
01/31/06
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