Japanese Devils

[Julien Seveon]

Indeed, Devil At The Doorstep was banned in China. Most of the troubles the 
director has encounter since then are in fact due to the Western press which 
kept on talking only about this aspect of his movie - despite the fact that 
he asked not to say too much about it. He had chosen to present his movie to 
Cannes without the official approval of the Chinese Government and has been 
since then forbidden to make any more movies in China...

Japan is a very touchy subject with Chinese officials. There are many 
financial interest between both countries and the Chinese Government doesn't 
want to upset the Japanese Government with films that could harmed their 
relationship. It is also not the first time that such ban is made on a 
Chinese film dealing with Japan (although I can't remember any specific 
title right now - Man Behind the Sun was notably shot almost illegally in 
Mainland).
Interestingly enough, it has never cause any problem to the Japanese 
government to release movies like Pride, or more generally revisionist, 
nationalist or anti-Chinese movies?

Julien Seveon



>From: "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: Japanese Devils
>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:24:42 +0000
>
>Er, can't verify this one, but wasn't Devils At The Doorstep banned in
>China, or something like that?  I think it was something to do with that.
>I hope someone more informed can steer me straight on this one.
>Don Brown
>
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