What's your reaction to the Tokyo Film Festival rejecting "The Cove"? The film won't hit my town until next month, but I have been following it with interest. I didn't realize that Japan was restricting artistic expression as much as the Chinese these days. Can anything be done to shame the organizers of the Tokyo Film Festival into changing their mind?
K.V. Anderson, Fort Collins, Colo.
A. The documentary is strongly critical of the Japanese practice of luring dolphins to a trap by using sonar, then selling some of the animals to theme parks and labeling the (mercury-tainted) flesh of the rest as whale meat. The film has been widely acclaimed (94 percent on the …
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