Rightist attack

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

RIGHTIST SLASHES THEATER SCREEN

Just after noon on the 6th, a 27-year old self-proclaimed rightist 
slashed the screen of Yokohama's Shinema Beti theater, which that day was 
beginning its run of the Hong Kong-China co-production, _Nanking 1937_ (a 
1995 film directed by Ziniu Wu).  The film is a dramatic recreation of 
the Nanjing Massacre.  A letter had arrived from a right wing group on 
the 5th calling for a cancellation of the showing and right-wing 
promotional trucks had made the same call on the 5th and 6th.  Perhaps as 
a precaution, the Isezaki Police Station had sent an officer to the 
theater, and thus the slasher was immediately arrested.

The theater was able to tape up the screen and continue that day's 
showings.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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