Another 'comfort women' film to hit theaters

/Courtesy of KBS

By Kim Da-hee

Another film about "comfort women" will open in the first half of the year, which will keep attention focused on the Japanese war crime during World War II.

"Snowy Road" is the fictional story of two Korean girls taken to a frontline "comfort station" for Japanese Imperial Army troops during Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula.

The drama was originally to be aired on KBS TV for the 70th anniversary of Independence Day last Aug. 15. But director Lee Na-jung made it into a movie so it would have wider appeal.

/Courtesy of KBS

"Snowy Road" has already garnered international attention. It has screened at many international film festivals, including the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015 and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2015.

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It won the award for best picture at China's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in 2015.

A film showing now, "Spirits' Homecoming" has brought the comfort women issue to the center of public attention, attracting more than 3 million viewers since its release in late February.

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