A docu about the Japanese Yasukuni war memorial shrine will get a Tokyo release after four exhibs pulled out last month.
Argo Pictures will open "Yasukuni" on May 3 atTokyo's Shibuya Cine Amuse.
The
doc is now set to bow in 23 venues across the country, including the
Cine Quanon theater in Tokyo and the Dai Nana Gekijo in Osaka, meaning
it will open in Japan's two biggest cities.
The distrib also
announced the names and opening dates of seven other venues for the
docu, which was pulled March 15 from a Tokyo theater, citing safety
concerns. Then, on March 31 distrib Argo announced that four more
theaters -- three in Tokyo and one in Osaka -- had bailed on the
skedded April 12 bow.
Chinese helmer Li Ying
has long claimed that the docu, which he spent a decade making, is not
an anti-Japanese view of the shrine, where Japan's WWII dead, including
Class-A war criminals, are memorialized. Conservative lawmakers and
right-wing groups, however, have moved to shut down screenings of the
pics, while protesting $75,000 in funding granted by the Agency for
Cultural Affairs for its production.
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