Author: N.A.
Source: "The Auckland Star", Wednesday, April 19 1939, p. 6
Text:
Tokyo.
Japanese movie censors who clip kisses, nudes, revolutions, and, in fact, almost anything that is objectionable to anybody, from motion pictures, have run up against a new problem. They have been asked by the French Embassy to clip scenes from a picture which, it is alleged, insults France. So far so good. If the picture were American, or British, or Russian, there would be no problem. But it is German, and Japan is on very, very friendly terms with the Reich.
If the censors refuse to use their shears the French threaten to retaliate by permitting the showing of anti- Japanese pictures, which they have thus far refrained from doing. If they use their shears the Germans may be offended, and that would be worse.
Recently the censors deleted all objectionable reference to Germany in the American picture, "Hell's Angels." This was at the request of the German Embassy.
With this as a precedent, the French Embassy has requested the Foreign Office to ban showing of "Accursed Ship," a German film.
The censors are withholding action pending a thorough investigation of the diplomatic angle of the problem. The present case, they state, is one of the most embarrassing they have encountered, and has greatly dampened their zeal.
The question confronting them is whether ,to clip, or not to, clip. In either case they face the threat of international diplomatic reaction.
Japanese movie censors who clip kisses, nudes, revolutions, and, in fact, almost anything that is objectionable to anybody, from motion pictures, have run up against a new problem. They have been asked by the French Embassy to clip scenes from a picture which, it is alleged, insults France. So far so good. If the picture were American, or British, or Russian, there would be no problem. But it is German, and Japan is on very, very friendly terms with the Reich.
If the censors refuse to use their shears the French threaten to retaliate by permitting the showing of anti- Japanese pictures, which they have thus far refrained from doing. If they use their shears the Germans may be offended, and that would be worse.
Recently the censors deleted all objectionable reference to Germany in the American picture, "Hell's Angels." This was at the request of the German Embassy.
With this as a precedent, the French Embassy has requested the Foreign Office to ban showing of "Accursed Ship," a German film.
The censors are withholding action pending a thorough investigation of the diplomatic angle of the problem. The present case, they state, is one of the most embarrassing they have encountered, and has greatly dampened their zeal.
The question confronting them is whether ,to clip, or not to, clip. In either case they face the threat of international diplomatic reaction.
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