"The Cove" Rejected By Tokyo Film Festival

[Catoneinutica]

Strictly speaking, they're all mongoloid anyway...

Heh. What's funny is that "mongoloid" was a clinical term not so long ago.

-catone
-along with "imbecile" and "moron"

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

"imbecile" and "moron"

I can proudly claim to being both....and a lunatic (and that's even certified!)

[Mulboyne]

[BO-SENSEI]

It's just twenty guys with nothing better to do than claim somethingn foreign as Japan-bashing, I am sure there are more Japanese people that would be interested in see this than would want to protest this, even with its limited release to a mere 20 locations, its an absolute shame.

[Yokohammer]

Regardless of how right or wrong the film might be, attempting to prevent it's release through intimidation and violence isn't going to help Japan's image much. It'll just reinforce the stereotype. But I guess the uyoku don't really give a shit about their image, or the image they create for their country, otherwise they wouldn't do stuff like this.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

It's just twenty guys with nothing better to do than claim somethingn foreign as Japan-bashing, I am sure there are more Japanese people that would be interested in see this than would want to protest this, even with its limited release to a mere 20 locations, its an absolute shame.

You would be surprised how much a small group like that can achieve by shouting and screaming in a land where direct confrontation is often shunned. Though the nail that sticks out gets hammered in this cuntry, the squeaky wheel is also oiled.

[Mulboyne]

2chers have learned that Mika Todd has signed up to a Facebook petition opposing the dolphin hunt in Taiji. Todd, daughter of Australian jazz pianist Johnny Todd and his wife Mitsue, was a member of Hello Project girl group Minimoni from 2001-2004. Minimoni was originally a spin-off project for three of the most popular Morning Musume, idols Mari Yaguchi, Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji. Mika joined them in the first iteration and took over as leader after Yaguchi moved on. She didn't have a bad voice as the following short clip showcases (that's Tsuji looking on):

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[Iraira]

Y'think Mika will be my FB friend?

[Mulboyne]

Y'think Mika will be my FB friend?

She might agree. Unless you start mentioning her dad's wig:



I'm sure you won't be interested but her sister Shay designs swimwear.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

She might agree. Unless you start mentioning her dad's wig:

In a country where fake hair is venerated, this shouldn't be a problem...but, looking at Dad's CV, he clearly has a severe case of YBF. [color="White"](This has got to be one of the worst websites in history....)[/color]

[dimwit]

In a country where fake hair is venerated, this shouldn't be a problem...but, looking at Dad's CV, he clearly has a severe case of YBF. [color="White"](This has got to be one of the worst websites in history....)[/color]

Hey being differently haired myself, I admire a man who has the courage to wear a really bad rug.



I personally prefer the road kill look and if I can ever get my hair long enough this is the route I plan to take.

[Catoneinutica]

She might agree. Unless you start mentioning her dad's wig:

Precisely how you'd expect someone named "Johnny Todd" to look.

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: Yokota base bans 'Cove' to be neutral

The Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove" has been banned from screening at the U.S. Air Force Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on the grounds that the film is politically sensitive, a spokesman said Monday. Public affairs spokesman Maj. Christopher Watt said Col. Frank Eppich made the decision to refuse screening "The Cove" at a base theater "since using a military base as a venue that could be seen as an endorsement (of the film) one way or another would be prohibited." Asked if the base would consider reversing the decision, Watt said, "We'll continue looking into it." Nevertheless, the spokesman added, "We have a lot of issues with Japan . . . and anything done on an American base would be seen as an approval of that event." Watt said the issue was raised after a base insider requested checking out a special projector to screen "The Cove" at a base theater. "I'm personally very interested in seeing the film," Watt said.

"The Cove" has won a major award in every film festival held worldwide, except Japan. The film focuses on the annual slaughter of some 20,000 dolphins in a cove near Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, and health issues related to the toxic effects of high mercury levels found in dolphin meat sold for human consumption, including from the slaughter. Japan considers its drive fisheries traditional and part of the nation's cultural heritage, although the operation near Taiji is conducted secretly. Activists worldwide have criticized Japan's dolphin hunts and the U.S. Senate introduced Resolution 99 in 2005 condemning Japan and other countries hunting dolphins, citing inhumane methods in the slaughter and severe health hazards to consumers who eat the small cetaceans.

[American Oyaji]

"The Cove" is going to be on the Animal Planet channel tomorrow night.

[Bucky]

The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.

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[Samurai_Jerk]

Despite swelling opposition, dolphin hunt begins in Taiji, Japan

These are dark days in Taiji, Japan, as far as conservationists are concerned, because this week marks the beginning of the annual dolphin hunt in the remote village made famous last year by the Academy Award-winning documentary, "The Cove."

The hunt began Wednesday despite widespread international opposition and protests in Tokyo.

Ric O'Barry, who trained dolphins for the 1960s show "Flipper" and helped produce "The Cove," traveled to Tokyo and delivered a petition of opposition, signed by 1.7 million people from 155 countries, to the U.S. Embassy. The activist, who also has produced an Animal Planet miniseries called "Blood Dolphins," was forced to cancel a trip to Taiji amid alleged threats from an ultra-nationalist group. ...

I had a friend in town from the States this weekend. He really wanted to try dolphin. I don't know if you can even buy it in Tokyo, so we had to settle for kujira bacon. I guess "The Cove" had quite an ipact on him.

[Bucky]

Cutting nets.

The European-based conservation group The Black Fish claims to have cut the nets of holding pens in Taiji, Japan, freeing "a number of dolphins" that had been selected for sale to aquariums and so-called dolphinariums around the world.

The Black Fish used divers who swam out in rough conditions and cut the nets of six pens. The group claims no arrests were made.

Fishermen in Taiji are participating in an annual dolphin capture that began on Sept. 1. The mammals are either sold or killed for meat. The hunt gained global notoriety last year because of the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove."

Earlier this week, Ric O'Barry, the renowned activist whose efforts were featured in "The Cove," reported that several Risso's dolphins had been killed by the dolphin hunters. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recently documented the killing of pilot whales and Risso's dolphins.

The Black Fish effort was the first act of vandalism this year on behalf of the marine mammals.

Said group co-founder Wietse ven der Werf, "The connection between the dolphin entertainment industry and this annual drive hunt can no longer be denied. To be successful in our campaigns in Europe we need to get to the root of this illegal trade, which is right at Taiji."

The annual hunt is backed by Japan's fisheries agency and several aquariums and dolphinariums purchase dolphins caught by the Taiji fishermen.

[Coligny]

Cutting nets.

give the dolphins chinese passports...

end of the problem...

[Mulboyne]

[hundefar]

This happens once in a while. No one in Denmark gives a fuck. It is accepted by most Danes that people from Faroe Islands and Greenland eat whale meat. They are even allowed to buy it in Denmark if they become members of a certain club. Usually it is illegal to buy and sell whale meat in Denmark. When I was a child you could buy whale meat in Danish supermarkets and occassionally the fishmonger in the building where I grew up would have a whole porpoise on display.

[Bucky]

Protest at the Japanese consulate in Seattle on 10/14/10

[Buraku]

Japanese Government Websites Hacked by ‘Anonymous’ in Protest of Dolphin Slaughter
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/japa ... slaughter/