Ocean Sentry
Bowing to international pressure, the Tokyo International Film Festival announced Wednesday it will screen the controversial award-winning American documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, at the nine-day event in October.
“It”s a really good day for dolphins and Japanese people,” director Louie Psihoyos told The Japan Times by phone from Sweden.
“Japanese people for the most part do not know about the high levels of mercury in dolphin meat. This film will hopefully once and for all settle the argument these animals shouldn”t be eaten for food because of extremely high levels of mercury.”
