“The Cove” Won’t Be Showing In Tokyo After All
Written by Vegetarian Star on June 4th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Film & TV.
Although The Cove was scheduled to screen in theatres in Tokyo, protests from groups in the city caused those venues to cancel the showing of the Oscar winning documentary about the killing of dolphins in Taiji that are later sold as unhealthy, mercury contaminated meat for human consumption.
Another cinema, Osaka, has followed the Tokyo theatres and cancelled its plans to show the film as well.
Director Louie Psihoyos spoke about the cancellation, as quoted in Black Book Magazine:
“It’s unfortunate that a few extremists scared one of the Tokyo venues from showing The Cove but I’m confident that the Japanese people will now be even more curious to know what these few people are trying so hard to hide. The extremists themselves are scared of the truth being known because what they are trying to hide cannot survive debate.”
The Japanese distributor, Unplugged, still plans to show the film in Japanese cities that are willing to do so.
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