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<div class="gmail_default">The women who answered the phone (apologies for not getting her name, calling people like this is not remotely my strong suit and I got nervous and forgot to ask) mentioned many things, and I would heartily ask everyone to call them
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<div class="gmail_default">The background to what she said is quite possibly what Markus writes, but one point she made was that as opposed to Image Forum or all the independent screenings of the film, since tax money was involved they thought they were particularly
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<div class="gmail_default">Right-wingers in Japan can be really f**ing scary, I can vouch for people's genuine fear in these situations, and I have activist friends who volunteer as guards at screenings of films like these. </div>
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