CINEMA CENSORSHIP.
JAPAN TAKES ACTION.
AMERICAN FILMS OFFEND.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 8.41 p.m.) NEW YORK. Nov. 13.
Despatches from Osaka state that the Japanese authorities, who have been combating American cinematograph films for a considerable period, have decided to take drastic censoring action. They assert that the American pictures shown in Japan are the worst produced • in the United States, and are unfit for exhibition anywhere. It was first hoped that by the imposition of an Imperial tax of 30 yen per 1000 feet the importation of films would be checked, but the contrary occurred, and American films are successfully competing with 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 ar.ti-social movements.
American distributing agents declare that this will mean that few subjects now treated by scenario writers can be used for films to be shown in Japan.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18247, 14 November 1922, Page 7
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