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Japan film festival decides not to show "comfort women" movie and other participants withdraw their movie in protest

2019-10-29 23 Dailymotion

A film festival in Japan has decided not to show a documentary about the country's wartime sexual enslavement of so-called "comfort women".<br />"Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue," directed by Japanese-American director Miki Dezaki was to be screened at the Kawasaki Shinyuri Film Festival, just outside Tokyo.<br />But the organizers said they had to cancel it, citing supposed safety and management risks... because some people interviewed in the film had sued to stop the screening.<br />That decision has been met with protests.<br />A Japanese film company said it was withdrawing two of its movies from the festival,... accusing the organizers of "murdering freedom of expression".<br />

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