PARK CITY, Utah (Kyodo) Two Canadian filmmakers were shocked and intrigued by a newspaper article in 2002 that reported North Korea's admission that it had abducted Japanese citizens to train spies, and so they made a film about it.
Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan, codirectors and producers of the documentary "Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story," said after the film's premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, that their main purpose was to translate the family's story for a U.S. audience, as the abduction issue is still ongoing.
"The story (of Yokota) has such a dramatic, almost Hollywood-like story to it because it's so bizarre, and we just felt we wanted to make it into a feature documentary," Sheridan said. "We felt that was the way to draw attention to the family's story."