Yasukuni documentary suppressed

[Alex Zahlten]

For anyone interested in the film, it will be showing at Nippon Connection in Frankfurt this coming Sunday. There is a surprisingly high number of explicitly political films around (and in the Nippon Connection program) this year, and several of the talk events and podium discussions with the Japanese filmmakers present at the festival will concern themselves with this question.

Alex


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> Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:59:26 +0900
> Von: "Rob Schwartz" <gangamati at gmail.com>
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Betreff: Re: Yasukuni documentary suppressed

> I just came from the last press screening of Yasukuni. The distributor,
> Argo
> Pictures, said that theaters in Tokyo pulled the screenings but that it
> will
> show in the 'chiho', though they didn't elaborate where specifically they
> meant.
> 
> They appealed to journalists to publicize the plight of the film, if they
> felt moved to do so by the screening.
> 
> Rob Schwartz
> Metropolis
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > Most of the major newspapers are reporting that many theaters
> > scheduled to show the documentary Yasukuni are deciding not to show
> > the film. Following the pressure from LDP politicians, now it seems
> > ultraright organizations are threatening to cause trouble at theaters
> > showing the movie, which is causing many to give up on the film.
> >
> > Aaron Gerow
> > KineJapan owner
> >
> > Assistant Professor
> > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> > Yale University
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >

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