Masahiro Kobayashi Explores "Bashing" at Cannes

Bashing, Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan (2005)From four time Cannes afficiondo Masahiro Kobayashi comes a film about a Japanese journalist held hostage in Iraq who returns home only to meet the scorn of her people. Coming to terms with the confinements of her upbringing in this brutal ostracization, she longs to return to the Middle East where she feels her life had meaning for the first time. The film evokes cross cultural references to hostage situations. In the case of Japan, Prime Minister Juni...