China debuts film on its last surviving ‘comfort women’ at Busan Film Festival

An undated handout photo released by the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) on September 29, 2015 shows a scene from joint Chinese-South Korean film 'Twenty Two'. -AFP/Busan International Film Festival

BUSAN, South Korea: There is only one way 89-year-old Zhang Xiantu can cope with the horrors that haunt her from the time she spent in sexual slavery during the Japanese occupation of China.

“When I start to remember,” says Zhang. “I force myself to forget.”