DRASTIC ACTION
JAPAN AND AMERICAN FILMS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
TOKTO, Nov. 13
The Japane.se authorities, who have been combating American cinemas for a considerable period, decided to take drastic censoring action against these photoplays, which they claim are the worst produced in the United States and unfit to exhibit anywhere. It was as first hoped that by the imposition of an imperial tax of thirty yen per thousand feet -of film importations would be checked, but the contrary occurred. American films are competing against the Japanese product. The Osaka municipality and various other prefectures decided to prohibit all films that include love-making, shooting, derogation of the police, thievery, revolution, anti-governmental and anti-social movements. American distributing agents declare that it will mean that few subjects now treated by scenario writers can be used for film consumption here.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 November 1922, Page 5
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140DRASTIC ACTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 November 1922, Page 5
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