Yasukuni documentary suppressed

[Rob Schwartz]

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
>
> For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to
> listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20080331/09ea71c0/attachment.html