Korean Cinemas Give Bleak Ending To Japanese Disaster Movie

[Mulboyne]

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Hollywood Reporter: 'Pandemic' cuts plague Japanese film
"Pandemic," a Japanese disaster movie about a deadly virus, is at the center of controversy in Korea after the movie's importer, KTH Paran, deleted a substantial portion of the film and introduced its own ending without the Japanese producer's permission. The movie, directed by Takahisa Zeze, opened here in February with a running time of 138 minutes, but 21 minutes worth of the film had been cut and the ending changed. While the original featured a hopeful ending, the edited version of the film ends abruptly with a subtitle that reads "By July 2011, 3,950 patients were infected with the virus and 1,120 were found dead." Tokyo Broadcasting System, the film's producer, requested that KTH Paran revert to the original, a request that has so far been ignored. KTH still hasn't reached a decision on settling with audience members seeking refunds...It's not the first time that a Korean importer has cut out scenes of a foreign film without a producer's approval...A local theater owner edited "Pulp Fiction" when it played here in 1994, assuming that the film's opening scene, which repeats at the end, had been accidentally pasted into the print[I]...more...[/I]

You can read what Jason Gray wrote about this film on his blog.

[BO-SENSEI]

Editing "Pulp Fiction"?! What God-forsaken place would allow such a thing?

[Samurai_Jerk]

A local theater owner edited "Pulp Fiction" when it played here in 1994, assuming that the film's opening scene, which repeats at the end, had been accidentally pasted into the print

Holy kimchee, Batman. Talk about someone who just doesn't get it and should not own a theater.