Wakamatsu Productions protested that the “KAWASAKI Shinyuri Film Festival” stopped the screening of the movie “Main Battlefield” dealing with the issue of comfort women. We decided to cancel the screening of “Yukio Mishima and the Youth”, and held a press conference in Tokyo on the 29th.News World Ahmed
At the interview, Mr. Kazuaki Shiraishi, who served as the director of “Can we stop, we”, “There is a flow that the place of expression is lost due to problems of Aichi Triennale etc. “I appealed to this trend and decided to stop screening as one of the issues.News World Ahmed
"I don't know what it is, but we think it's a pressure at the moment Kawasaki City expressed concern. The film festival should also protect the film as a filmmaker, and pride it there. No matter what the pressure is, we will push the back if it ’s a millimeter to fight for the movie, ”he said.
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In addition, Junichi Inoue, who was in charge of the script of “Can you stop it?”, Says, “It ’s going to happen before the big problem happens. I don't think political movies should be listed from the beginning, or that might happen, because I thought Shinyuri Film Festival was a loving film festival, so that ’s why it ’s sad.News World Ahmed
According to Wakamatsu Productions, the two films that were canceled are scheduled to be screened free of charge at a cultural facility in Kawasaki City apart from the film festival.
Criticizing the response of Kawasaki City
At the Wakamatsu production conference, the representative of the company that distributes the movie “Main Battlefield”, Shigeki Kinoshita said at the end, “If the screening of“ Main Battlefield ”is canceled as it is, it will be a bad precedent. Therefore, the company strongly hopes that the film festival side will show it again.News World Ahmed
On top of that, “I felt that the government was trying to do a censorship that changed the form of public power, put pressure on the culture,” criticized Kawasaki ’s response.