Devils on the Doorstep

[A. M. Nornes]

At 11:53 PM +0000 9/20/01, Don Brown wrote:
> >From the Japan Today website:
> Don Brown
>
> China wants films pulled from festival
>
>
> Sunday, September 9, 2001 at 20:00 JST
> FUKUOKA — China has asked that two internationally acclaimed movies
> not be shown at a Japanese municipal film festival on the grounds that they
> are banned in China, Fukuoka city officials said Saturday.

This is typical.  The PRC has always tried to apply such pressure on
international film festivals, probably beginning with the breakout of the
5th generation filmmakers. I recall at the Hawaii festival in the 1980s,
there was often meddling vis a vis the inclusion of Taiwanese films and even
what Taiwan was called in the festival catalog.

markus