Thai fest yanks Sakamoto film

[Aaron Gerow]

There are reports that the Bangkok Film Festival dropped Sakamoto  
Junji's new film Children of the Dark (Yami no kodomotachi) because  
of objections by the main sponsor, the Tourism Authority. The film  
deals with child prostitution in Thailand.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0570830/

Aaron Gerow
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Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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