"The Cove" Japan Screenings Still Under Threat

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Jason Gray: The Cove - Japan Theatrical Release Still in Doubt!
...A good friend is working on the publicity team for The Cove and is worried that certain members of Japan's uyoku (right wing) and representatives of Taiji, the town where the dolphin cull takes place, will exert so much pressure on exhibitors that they'll end up without any screens to show the film on. These groups are already ramping up threats which is making theatrical bookings difficult...Whatever you think of The Cove or its makers, it deserves to be released here...If you're a journalist writing for a website or publication of note and believe The Cove should be released, do your part to make that known. There will be another upcoming press screening (under police guard) where you can see the film and learn more about the difficult circumstances it's facing here...If you're interested in going to the screening you can contact me via the "contact" link...more...

Related FG Thread: "The Cove" Rejected By Tokyo Film Festival

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I watched this movie for the first time the other night and was surprised that it wasn't entirely biased against the dolphin slaughterers. There were a few flaws, but it was pretty good.
Still, they haven't got a hope of getting this shown widely in Japan. They are trying to deal rationally with a sector of the population for which rationality means sweet FA.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Geat poster!

[alicia454]

I am all for showing "The Cove" in Japan and elsewhere, since many people, especially Japanese, are not aware that this horrible practice is still going on.

But is important to note that several other countries also engage in this horrible practice of herding cetaceans into a cove and killing them until the ocean water turns blood red. Most notable the Danish in the Faroe Islands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting#Faroe_Islands

Of course, many other countries including Canada still engage in commercial whaling. (In Canada case whale meat/blubber is often sold and traded in northern communities, and has a legally acceptable tender/monetary value.)

The only good news is that people who eat cetacean flesh are slowly poisoning themselves with high levels of toxins especially mercury and dioxins, so hopefully the consumption will decrease as they get sicker and die!

I do feel bad for those children who's twisted parents allow them to eat cetacean flesh, especially since the effects of those toxins are far more damaging on developing brains and central nervous systems.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/147559/whale_meat_returns_to_japanese_school_lunch/

[Takechanpoo]

many people, especially Japanese, are not aware that this horrible practice is still going on.

Aside other countries dudes, almost all of Japanese know this "horrible" practice is still going on, needless to say. And there is no slaughter which is not "horrible" in the earth. Just think the reason why Japanese press their hands together in prayer before eating.

[Greji]

I am all for showing "The Cove" in Japan and elsewhere, since many people, especially Japanese, are not aware that this horrible practice is still going on.

A large portion of Japan does know this is going on, but since they don't look at it as horrible, they could really care less. However, this adverse publicity (as they see it,) is not helping at all. They consider these "campaigns" as nothing more than further attacks on Japan for whaling, bluefin tuna and Toyota. So the more you yell at them, the more they become disinterested (a unique J-form of being pissed off silently).

Also, why don't you see if you can get Sea Sheppard to help you stop those felonious native Americans and Eskimos in the Canada and the US who hunt whales under the cultural and legal rights allowed by both governments? I think the lack of movements against those peoples can be traced to incoming 30-06 rounds.

However, on a positive note, it is nice to note that such a sensitive and culturally aware young woman like yourself is so pleased to have older human beings die (from eating "tainted" meat) so that your beloved cetaceans will live. That statement does worry me a bit, but far be it from me to suggest that you might have some serious breeding problems....

[Mike Oxlong]

Yeah, the last time SS came to watch our seal hunt (genuine Saskatchewan sealskin don't grow on trees, eh), Canada took possession of one of their fleet. You could probably pick it up for cheap...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Farley_Mowat

[Greji]

Yeah, the last time SS came to watch our seal hunt (genuine Saskatchewan sealskin don't grow on trees, eh), Canada took possession of one of their fleet. You could probably pick it up for cheap...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Farley_Mowat

Why just take possession? Should have just torpedo'd the mother...

[Yokohammer]

It's happening.

Just on the news this morning: a theater in Shibuya that was scheduled to screen The Cove has just announced that they have decided not to show the movie.

The reason they gave: "We received a phone call from a 'certain' group, and screening the movie might cause trouble for nearby businesses and residents."

In other words, they were threatened. The "certain" group probably threatened to park sound trucks in front of the theater.

[Christoff]

perhaps they should serve dolphin kebabs out front to drum up business and snacks for Uyoku dantai

[Ketou]

It's happening.

Just on the news this morning: a theater in Shibuya that was scheduled to screen The Cove has just announced that they have decided not to show the movie.

The reason they gave: "We received a phone call from a 'certain' group, and screening the movie might cause trouble for nearby businesses and residents."

In other words, they were threatened. The "certain" group probably threatened to park sound trucks in front of the theater.

More likely they threatened to burn it down.

[Catoneinutica]

Japan calls itself a democracy and tut-tuts China when China bans certain media and expression by direct government diktat. Yet the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry here, along with their affiliated boryokudan interest groups, have suppressed this film as relentlessly as anything China could pull off. Still, the "Japan is a democracy" Kool-Aid gets drunk eagerly by most nihonjin, and not a few gaijin.

-catone
-Exhibit A: Japan Probe

[Takechanpoo]

Actually I have to admit that it is regrettable not to air this ridiculous propaganda movie by crazy cults in Japan. But moreover anti-whaler's full-of-confidence faces creep me terribly. Christians cannot help but make "enemies" in any ages. They cannot even breathe without enemy.

[Midwinter]

Actually I have to admit that it is regrettable not to air this ridiculous propaganda movie by crazy cults in Japan. But moreover anti-whaler's full-of-confidence faces creep me terribly. Christians cannot help but make "enemies" in any ages. They cannot even breathe without enemy.

Dude, there is a world of difference between Christians and HIPPIES. I don't even think the two compatible...

[American Oyaji]

Dude, there is a world of difference between Christians and HIPPIES. I don't even think the two compatible...

Got to agree. Bang outta line.

[Takechanpoo]

No. Christianity or Monotheismic mentality is a given thing for you Westerners. So it is difficult for you to be aware of it. But We Japanese, whose mentality probably are most far from monotheismic mentality in the earth, can CLEARLY be aware of it. Those anti-whaling hippies too has monotheismic mentality in their deep psyche even if they are not Christian.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Dude, there is a world of difference between Christians and HIPPIES. I don't even think the two compatible...

What about the Jesus Freaks?

[Christoff]

"monotheismic mentality in the earth"? hardly when you would rather eat the tuna population into extinction rather than let them replenish with a temporary halt to fishing.

[Takechanpoo]

Euro-American dudes(especially American dudes) having monotheistic mentality in their deep psyche believe naively that there is only one justice in the earth. In other words they cannot recognize multiple justices after all(Look at their creepy full-of-confidence faces!!:puke: ). This is the reason whaling problem is unsettled for good. But this is the problem of deep psyche. So probably impossible to resolve.
Yeah, you know, we Japanese [SIZE="5"]never quit killing whale and dolphine[/SIZE].

[Yokohammer]

Yeah, you know, we Japanese [SIZE="5"]never quit killing whale and dolphine[/SIZE].

Fair enough.
You'll probably never learn to spell properly either.

Edit: Actually, Take, as a nationalistic Japanese you should be very concerned about the whaling issue too. Not because it's about killing or eating whale or dolphin, but because it's another huge "amakudari" scam that's contributing to the destruction of your country's economy. Don't just accept what the government or media tell you, do the research and you'll see what I mean. It's a huge waste of OUR tax money, and the semi-retired fat cats who sit around picking their noses and drawing 20-milliion (JPY) or higher salaries are the only ones who are really benefiting. Of course they want you to believe it's about "preserving Japanese culture." It isn't. It's about preserving their personal wealth at your expense.

You might not be fooled by the narrow-minded monotheists, but it seems that you are being thoroughly fooled by the self-interested bureaucracy/industry/amakudari religion.

[Behan]

Fair enough.
You'll probably never learn to spell properly either.

Good reply, but he's just a white dude who's trolling.

[Adhesive]

You might not be fooled by the narrow-minded monotheists, but it seems that you are being thoroughly fooled by the self-interested bureaucracy/industry/amakudari religion.

+1

Good reply, but he's just a white dude who's trolling.

+1

[6810]

I love how every challenge to Take's validity comes in the form of people questioning his ethnicity.

Dude makes a good point. Monotheists are truly bizarre with all of their universalisms and, I think the word Take was after was, "smugness".

Monotheists can be really gross. They don't have to be, but there is a prevailing trend among Judaeo-Christo-Islamic cultures and countries to be so...

"My book is the definitive edition!"
"No, mine is!"
"Your god's a pussy. Doesn't even exist cos I'm a monotheist. You are inferior."
"God bequeathed this land to us! The book says so! So we get to kill you."
"Ha! I don't care if it is thousands of years after the fact, and that the roman empire used a parochial religion to enslave rebellious Jews, we rule!"
"Yes, but our book is the final world. Time to meet my virgins"

Kaboom.
Ratatatatat.
Repeat, ad lib, ad nauseum.

And all you non-vegetarian fuckers - shut the fuck up about eating dolphins... it's so dreary...

[Behan]

I love how every challenge to Take's validity comes in the form of people questioning his ethnicity.

He makes racist remarks all the time. He's just trolling of course.

[Mulboyne]

A one-off screening in Nakano quickly sold out:

600 watch 'The Cove' in Tokyo despite protest

Documentary maker Kazuhiro Soda commented on Twitter that "[The] protest served as the biggest advertisement for the film."

[Mulboyne]

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[Yokohammer]

Here's an interesting development.

Nico-nico Douga are planning to stream "The Cove" for free, in the interest of free speech and to encourage discussion.

The Japan Times article is ... here ...

[Yokohammer]

More interesting news.

The Yokohama District Court has banned a Tokyo civic group from staging protests around a movie theater in Yokohama that plans to screen the Oscar-winning U.S. documentary "The Cove" about a contentious dolphin kill in Wakayama Prefecture, its Japanese distributor said Friday.

Court bans protesters at cinema airing "Cove"

[American Oyaji]

Wow. Some info Canman might find boss.

The five other cities where the film will be screened are Osaka, Sendai, Yokohama, Kyoto and [color="Red"]Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture[/color]. They will be followed by cinemas in 16 other locations nationwide, including Hiroshima, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Okinawa.

If I were in Japan, I'd take my boys to see it. They need to know.

[Takechanpoo]

I too am opposed to disturb screening The Cove. If you watch it, you inevitably understand how extent what anti-whalers are insisting is retarded. Otherwise the standard of your patterns of thinking means the same as Maya civilization's one.

Japan never never never stop killing whale.
We kill and eat them to extinction.