Visiting actress Angelina Jolie, who plays a mother searching for her son in her latest movie, "Changeling," voiced sympathy Friday for the mothers of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and '80s.
"I would like to meet those mothers (who must have had an) extraordinarily difficult time," Jolie, 33, also a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters in Tokyo while promoting the movie, after learning of the kidnappings.
The movie, based on a real-life story that took place in Los Angeles in 1928, concerns a mother's search for her 9-year-old missing son. When she doubts the identity of the child returned to her, she is pressured by police to accept the boy as her own and end her search.