World: Japan’s far-right minority doesn’t want you to see this documentary
- There are millions of Japanese people. There’s around 10,000 far-right nationalists. And they really don’t want you to see “The Cove,” an Oscar-winning film about Japan’s fishing trade, which often is very violent towards dolphins (and notes the amount of mercury in the country’s fish supply). The protests are getting enough attention that the film might not get a showing at all. “Everybody is so scared,” said Tatsuya Mori, a film director and critic of the protests. “The Japanese tend to imagine worst-case scenarios, but we need to remember that they are in fact a very small number of people.” Not a single theater in Japan has been willing to show the film. source
