Author: N.A.
Source: "The Bisbee Daily Review", Thursday, October 30, 1919, p. 4
Text:
Japan down on kissing and hugging to such an extent that a fellow and a regular girl might as well be miles apart as to be close together in Tokyo. Not only do the police frown on kissing in public, but they even scowl at it in motion pictures. What would a motion picture amount to without a lavish display of osculatory exercises?
In six months Japanese authorities removed 2350 kisses from the films. Only one kiss was allowed to remain. It was a kiss granted Columbus by Queen Isabella; and everybody knows that was only a tame kind of a kiss, and really not worth mentioning. Even that kiss was permitted to remain in Tokio only, and was ruthlessly cut out with a cleaver before the photoplay was sent to the provinces.
Three hundred and fifty-three embraces were removed from the films, and the titles of 2144 "movies" were altered by censors. One hundred and twenty-seven murders that had been committed in the studios at Los Angeles were avenged in Japan by the simple device of eliminating them entirely. Thus much blood was uselessly spilt.
Moralists may find in this situation an exemplification of the difference in standards between America and Japan, most of the films having been produced in this country. Happily, one doesn't have to be a moralist if one doesn't want to be.
In six months Japanese authorities removed 2350 kisses from the films. Only one kiss was allowed to remain. It was a kiss granted Columbus by Queen Isabella; and everybody knows that was only a tame kind of a kiss, and really not worth mentioning. Even that kiss was permitted to remain in Tokio only, and was ruthlessly cut out with a cleaver before the photoplay was sent to the provinces.
Three hundred and fifty-three embraces were removed from the films, and the titles of 2144 "movies" were altered by censors. One hundred and twenty-seven murders that had been committed in the studios at Los Angeles were avenged in Japan by the simple device of eliminating them entirely. Thus much blood was uselessly spilt.
Moralists may find in this situation an exemplification of the difference in standards between America and Japan, most of the films having been produced in this country. Happily, one doesn't have to be a moralist if one doesn't want to be.
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