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Megumi

Megumi

20087.00h 25m

Overview

An anime biography on Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 when she was 13 years old. North Korea acknowledges abducting her and at least 12 other Japanese residents during the 1970s and the 1980s, but the country has not provided any conclusive evidence on her fate and most of the others.

Directed by Hidetoshi Ōmori
Written by Hideki Mitsui
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Top Cast

Minami Takayama

Minami Takayama

Megumi Yokota (voice)

Rica Fukami

Rica Fukami

Sakie Yokota (voice)

Megumi Tano

Megumi Tano

Takuya Yokota (boy) (voice)

Bin Shimada

Bin Shimada

Takuya Yokota (adult) (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Shin-ichiro Miki

Colleague (voice)

Yumiko Akaike

Yumiko Akaike

Nurse (voice)

Masahito Kawanago

Masahito Kawanago

Clerk (voice)

Aruno Tahara

Aruno Tahara

Administration official (voice)

Junko Shimakata

Junko Shimakata

Tsubo (voice)

Michio Hazama

Michio Hazama

Narrator (voice)

About Megumi

Megumi is a animation film released in 2008. Directed by Hidetoshi Ōmori, it stars Minami Takayama, Rica Fukami, Megumi Tano. An anime biography on Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 when she was 13 years old. North Korea acknowledges abducting her and at least 12 other Japanese residents during the 1970s and the 1980s, but the country has not provided any conclusive evidence on her fate and most of the others.

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