The Cove

[Aaron Gerow]

The Asahi reports this morning that one of the theaters scheduled to  
show the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove has broken under pressure  
from right-wing organizations and decided not to show the film. The  
right-wingers, who had threatened to begin protests on the 4th in  
front of the theater, had already performed loud protests in front of  
the distributor in April, charging those associated with the film with  
being "anti-Japanese" and "terrorists destroying the Japanese spirit."  
Theater N in Shibuya, which is owned by the publishing distributor  
Nippan, decided not to show the film because for fear something might  
happen to one of the customers or someone in the building. Cinemart  
Roppongi, the other theater scheduled to show the film, is considering  
whether to go on with the screening.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/dolphin-hunt-film-canceled-in-tokyo-after-protests

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

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