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Bashing (2005) is a Japanese movie. Masahiro Kobayashi has directed this movie. Fusako Urabe,Nene Ohtsuka,Takayuki Katô,Kikujirô Honda are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Bashing (2005) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
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, and he defends her actions after her ...
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we should know why she did these actions
Few years ago there were abduction issues, Japanese woman held hostage in Iraq. This story wrote her circumstance in home town and what neighbors and friends did her after hostage. In Japan we learn "Don't make waves" from earlier ages. Japanese tend to be equal to others, which means nobody like different act from others. This heroine went to prohibited country and engaged to nursing. When held hostage in Iraq, we, Japanese, hoped to come back Japan and Japanese government did their best. Finally she returned home. We were pleased to see her back. However we discussed in mass-media why she went to this kind of dangerous country in spite of governmental prohibition. If she were not in Iraq, there were no abduction issue. This discussion is close related to our mentality, "Don't make waves". Many people thought she was stranger and she made wave. So some people attacked her and her family. I'm also Japanese and I understand this kind of image to her. But we should know why she did these actions. And treat her based on understanding of her opinion. At the movie she said. In Japan I was loser and nobody needed me. However in Iraq I was useful person and could support lots of people. Many children hugged her. This is a key to know her.
A touching movie based on a real story
This film is based on the real story of a girl who is back at home in Japan after having taken hostage in Iraq, where she was gone to do charity work. Rather than being seen as a victim, she is considered as an embarrassment for the whole Japanese society and subject to hostility and threats. She is fired from her work, leaves her boyfriend who has turned against her and is harassed by anonymous phone calls and emails. Hostility even reaches her father. She cannot even find comfort with her family because of incommunicable. The film is realised with great sobriety, and remarkably played by Fusako Urabe. It is a good picture of the weight of conformism and rigidity of a society which can destroy individuals. This film was shown in competition in Cannes 2005.
Beautiful.
This is a story about isolation. A story about alienation and oppression. A story about power-distance. And a story about having your eyes opened to something they were kept shut to. These are all the things Bashing is about. This is a gripping Slice of Life genre gem that few people have a hard time accepting, because few people have seen it. At its core is the truth about people, human nature, Japanese nature and mentality which has been studied about for years, but is only now taken a more serious shape where writers and directors are willing to sacrifice their ego and reputation to talk about it. Often misinterpreted as being a story whose importance is placed on an event which happened before it started: a woman returning from Iraq. But, that has as much to do with what the story is about as why Hitchcock chose Plutonium instead of Nitrate, it's besides the point and has little relevance to the story and what it has to say. The spark which sets the flame could of been anything. The director did a fantastic job in the choices he made. If this were shot any other way; if it looked plastic, if it looked too clean, if it had all the bells and whistles of a blockbuster film or a nonsensical plot based off a cartoon, it would be mess and an absolute travesty. The performances are beautiful, and all the pieces fit. The interest factor has longevity, and the story has real substance. I cannot say enough about this film (or anymore without spoiling it). I haven't seen something that stayed with me as long as this did for quite some time. And I'm happy to have found it. It is a quintessential slice of life drama.
Stupid Girl!
Bashing is a laughable attempt to make a movie out of a quite interesting topic, namely the Japanese population's shunning of Japanese nationals who are held hostage in Iraq. This movie follows Takai, a girl who has recently returned to Japan after being held hostage in, I do believe, an un-named country. Because of her willingness to go, she is fired from her job, loses her boyfriend, her Dad also loses her job, and worst of all, is not allowed to purchase soup from the convenience store! She also gets daily threats by phone. Hmm..Ever think of changing your number lady? Actually, the whole movie is filled with these ridiculous problems that could easily be resolved normally, but in this movie, you're wondering how stupid these people really are. The Father loses his job as I said because of his daughter. Aren't um, there any workers rights in Japan? Dad's in a union for crying out loud. (He said it "wasn't worth the hassle to fight for his job " riiiiight). Soon Dad commits suicide, and almost the first thing out of his daughter's mouth is something about her entitlement to the death insurance policy so she could go back to where she was kept hostage! I mean, this film defies logic, to become almost satiric.