(CJ Entertainment)

Upcoming period film “Battleship Island” ended six months of shooting Tuesday, according to news reports Thursday.

The shooting, which involved some 200 staff, took place in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province. The filming lasted for about six months. The final take was taken in a mine in Chuncheon.

(CJ Entertainment)

Hwang Jung-min, Song Joong-ki and So Ji-sub play the protagonists in the film which is based on the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The movie centers on a bandmaster, Lee Kang-ok, played by Hwang, who is duped into a job offer in Japan but was sent instead to a forced labor camp on Battleship Island, also known as Hashima Island.

An independence fighter, Park Moo-young, played by Song, engages in a covert operation to rescue people from the island. The movie will be released next year.

By Son Ji-hyoung (json@heraldcorp.com)