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K-pop girl group Rainbow / Korea Times file

Rainbow to come back next month

Seven-member K-pop girl group Rainbow will make a comeback next month with new studio album, the group’s management company DSP Media announced, Wednesday.

“Members of Rainbow, who have actively performed as a soloist and as a subunit, will return with new studio album after a-year-and-seven-month hiatus,” the company said in a statement.

Along with the “comeback” news, the company also revealed the behind the scenes snap from photo shoot for their album cover.

Comprised of Kim Ji-sook, Kim Jae-kyung, Go Woo-ri, Cho Hyun-young, No Eul, Oh Seung-ah, and Jung Yoon-hye, the band made their debut in 2009 with EP “Gossip Girl.”

The band released their first studio album “Rainbow Syndrome” in 2013.

Sota Fukushi in a scene from “As God Says” / Courtesy of Sidus Pictures

Top Japanese film to screen in Korea

“As God Says,” a Japanese thriller film that captured the top spot at the Japanese box office last November, will be screened in Korea in the first half year, the film’s local distributor Sidus Pictures announced, Wednesday.

Based on Muneyuki Kanshiro and Akeji Fujimura’s comic book of the same title, the film follows a high school boy, who is forced to join a deadly game by unknown forces.

In Japan, it is often described as a successor of 2000 Japanese film “Battle Royale” or an equivalent of the Hunger Games franchise. The comic book series was also published in Korea.

The film, starring an actor Sota Fukushi as a high school boy, is directed by Takashi Miieke, who’s best known for directing violent films like “13 Assassins and Ichi the Killer” and “Fudoh: The New Generation.”