Megumi (2008)

Director:

Hidetoshi Omori

Writers:

Hideki Mitsui (screenplay)
Souichi Moto (comic)

Release Date:

2008 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Biography | Crime | Drama | History

Plot:

A look at the final days in Japan of 13-year-old Megumi Yokota who was kidnapped by the North Korean government in 1977. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Comic

Cast

Minami Takayama	...	Megumi Yokota (voice: Japanese version)
Soness Stevens	...	Megumi Yokota (voice: English version)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Shigeru Yokota (voice: Japanese version)
Walter Roberts	...	Shigeru Yokota (voice: English version)
Rica Fukami	...	Sakie Yokota (voice: Japanese version) (as Rika Fukami)
Sally Koshinaka	...	Sakie Yokota (voice: English version)
Megumi Tano	...	Young Takuya Yokota (voice: Japanese version)
Bin Shimada	...	Adult Takuya Yokota (voice: Japanese version)
David Shufele	...	Adult Takuya Yokota (voice: English version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yumiko Akaike	...	Nurse (voice: Japanese version)
Masahito Kawanago	...	Clerk (voice: Japanese version)
Jong-il Kim	...	Himself (archive footage)
Junichiro Koizumi	...	Himself (archive footage)
Stacey Powell	...	Tsubo (voice: English version)
Stacy Powell	...	Nurse (voice: English version)
Junko Shimakata	...	Tsubo (voice: Japanese version)
David Shufle	...	Administration official (voice: English version)
Aruno Tahara	...	Administration official (voice: Japanese version)
Megumi Yokota	...	Herself (archive footage)
Sakie Yokota	...	Herself (archive footage)
Shigeru Yokota	...	Himself (archive footage)

Runtime:

270 min (9 parts)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | Korean | English | Cantonese

Color:

Color | Black and White

Company:

Secretariat, Headquarters for the Abduction Issue

Trivia:

In hopes of reaching as many people as possible, the Japanese government distributed this freely for downloading in multiple languages.

Movie Connections:

References Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)

Soundtrack:

A Song for Megumi