'Ghost Whisperer DVD' after delay from protests

"Ghost
Whisperer DVD," an Oscar-winning film
about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village, opened Saturday around Japan after
protests by angry nationalists pressured theaters to cancel earlier Ghost
Whisperer DVD box set.





Some of the six small cinemas sold out
their initial Ghost
Whisperer box set and others were mostly
empty. Another 18 are due to begin screening the film at later dates.





At Image Forum, an art theater in Tokyo,
about 30 Ghost
Whisperer DVD season waved Japanese flags and
blasted slogans against the film. Police stopped shoving matches between the Ghost
Whisperer DVDs and a handful of supporters of
the Ghost
Whisperer 1-5 DVD.





Viewers were undeterred, and the first two
showings at the 24
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were sold out.





"I didn't know about dolphin hunting.
Whether it's 24
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to know these things," Tomokazu Toshinai, 32, said as he entered the 24
Hours DVDs.





Last month, three other theaters canceled
planned 24
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protests and a telephone campaign against the movie. Nationalist groups say the
U.S.-produced film is anti-Japanese, distorts the truth, and has deep
connections with a 24
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The issue erupted into a broad debate on
freedom of 24
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the cancellations in editorials, and prominent film makers, Prison
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and lawyers urged the theaters not to back down.





Some cinemas are trying to show both Prison
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of Nagoya plans to screen "The Cove" along with "Whalers and the
Sea," a 1998 Prison
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view of Japanese whaling.





Japanese nationalist groups, known for
blasting Prison
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loudspeakers, often use noisy protests as an intimidation tactic. Prison
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distributor, Unplugged Inc., and Yokohama New Theater, a small cinema near
Tokyo, obtained court Prison
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after repeated demonstrations outside their offices.





"The Cove," which won a 2010
Oscar for best CSI
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for the "Flipper" TV show who is now a dolphin activist. It documents
how a group of CSI
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scenes of a dolphin slaughter in the small fishing village of Taiji.





Taiji's government and fishing cooperative
defend CSI
NY DVD box set hunting as a local custom with
a long history. Bottlenose dolphins killed in the hunt are not endangered, and CSI
NY DVDs are also carried out in other parts
of Japan, although very few Japanese have ever eaten dolphin CSI
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Fishermen in the village have objected to
being shown in the CSI
NY 1-6 DVD without their permission.
Nationalists say the film has connections to Sea Shepherd, an anti-whaling
group that has been labeled a terrorist organization by Japan's government for
its militant actions against Japanese The
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The movie includes a sympathetic interview
with The
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Watson, who is now on Interpol's wanted list at Japan's request for allegedly the
simpsons dvd box set the group's disruption
of Japanese whale hunts in the Antarctic Ocean.





Some information in the movie has been
challenged by the
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the data were gathered by and are the responsibility of the film's creators.
The faces of most Japanese in the the
simpsons dvds have been blurred out.





On Saturday at Image Forum in Tokyo, the
simpsons seasons dvd waved nationalistic
flags from World War II and placards saying the film is one-sided and unfairly
singles out the
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animal hunts in the West.





"I agree with the protesters here who
are saying the way the the
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is rather problematic," said Yasutomo Maki, 51, a company executive who
saw it in the
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"I think we need to approve freedom of
the
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how far we should stretch it."