TOKYO: Oscar-winning dolphin hunting documentary “The Cove” was screened at a cinema guarded by police in Japan on Saturday despite outrage among protesters who have complained the film is anti-Japanese.
Some 50 people watched the first showing of the movie at a theatre in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, its distributor Unplugged said.
The film shows graphic scenes of the bloody but legal dolphin slaughter filmed using hidden cameras and nationalist groups say it should be banned because it is anti-Japanese.
Police were deployed at the entrance “but there has been no confusion so far”, an official at Unplugged said, adding that the film would be screened at five more theatres in Tokyo and other cities on Saturday.
It was the first commercial screening of the film in a Japanese cinema, though the distributor has staged one-off screenings at promotion events and an online screening.
The distributor scrapped planned screenings last month after right-wing protesters – known for their ear-splitting street demonstrations using megaphones – targeted cinemas.
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