ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Cove” which lists the horrific acts of the capture of dolphins in Japan, on Sunday won the Oscar for best documentary.
Victory “Cove” among the best films of the year reviewed, but relatively the United States unpopular with the masses, owing to the topic disturbing, and it came days after the company announced distributed the movie in theaters would open across Japan for the first time later this year.
“The Cove” failed to gross $ 1 million in domestic release and is even less known in Japan, where the government maintained that the hunting of dolphins and whales are still an important cultural tradition.
Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, the film tells the story of a group of ecological activists who struggle with the Japanese police and fisherman access to a secluded cove in Tai Chi, in southern Japan, where dolphins are caught.
It features graphic footage of the dolphins, which were taken to a cove and massacred, but also noted that dolphin meat is eaten by a very small percentage of the Japanese people.
Movie features Rick O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer of the television series 1960s “Flapper”, which helped organize the efforts to the facts of the hunt for dolphin in Tai Chi.
O’Barry also appeared on various talk shows urging an end to commercial displays of marine mammals in the wake of the recent killing of coach of the killer whale at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens theme park in Florida.
Takeshi Kato separate distribution company, said on Thursday that he had arranged to show “The Cove” in five theaters in major Japanese cities in May or June, and hopes to increase the number of theaters to about 20.
The documentary was shown at the Tokyo International Festival last year, but the university in Tokyo, was reported to have abandoned plans to screen the film there this month after objections from Tai Chi.
“When the film is seen in Japan, it will be closed ‘Cove’ down permanently”, O’Barry said in a recent interview.
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