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Tokyo cinemas scrap plans to show Yasukuni film - Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three cinemas in the Japanese capital have scrapped their plans to screen an award-winning documentary on Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, where convicted war criminals are honored, cinema officials said on Monday.

The decision leaves Tokyo without a theatre planning to show the film, which won a best documentary award at Hong Kong's international film festival last week.

The film "Yasukuni," by Chinese director Li Ying, probes events and visitors at the shrine, seen by many in Asia as a symbol of Japan's past militarism. The Shinto shrine venerates Japan's 2.5 million war dead, including convicted war criminals.

Director Li, who said he had received threatening phone calls telling him not to release the film in Japan, has said he attempted to offer a neutral view in "Yasukuni."

Officials at the Tokyo cinemas said they had not come under pressure from particular individuals or groups.

"We made the decision because showing the film could cause trouble or disturb neighboring commercial entities," said an official at Ginza Cinepatos, on a smart shopping street in central Tokyo.

Another cinema in Osaka also decided to cancel its plan to screen the film, Kyodo news agency said.

東京の3つの映画館が「靖国」上映を取りやめたため、都内の上映館はなくなった。リ監督は日本での公開をしないように脅迫を受けた。彼は靖国に関する「中立的な」見方を提供するように試みた。上映館によると、特定個人や団体からの圧力で取りやめたわけではなく、近隣施設に迷惑がかかるためだという。

要するにみんな大好きな「空気嫁」を実行したわけね。

想像するに、下のサイトみたいな写真が映画館で堂々上映されるのが何かまずかったのかな？
http://timesonline.typepad.com/times_tokyo_weblog/2006/08/uyoku_gallery_s.html

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