Japanese-produced film “not appropriate for Thai society”
A Japanese-produced film about child prostitution in Thailand has been yanked from the Bangkok Film Festival because it was deemed “not appropriate for Thai society:”
Japanese director Sakamoto Junji’s Children of the Dark , about Thai children who are forced into prostitution and service the tourist trade and efforts by an NGO (non-governmental organization) and a Japanese journalist to rescue them, was pulled from the festival following objections from its main sponsor, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Last year, the festival pulled the animated Persepolis , about an Iranian girl’s coming of age during the Islamic revolution, after receiving complaints from the Iranian Embassy.
For more information about Children of the Dark, check out the posts on it at Mutantfrog Travelogue and JasonGray.
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