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January 27, 2007
Ahmadinejad's Japanese soulmates
So there's a Japanese right-wing revisionist "documentary" about how the Nanking Massacre never happened coming out. One of Ishihara's buddies. These guys really need a visit from Mr. Peabody or Dr. Who or whoever it is takes you back in time to show you the error of your ways these days. Just goes to show you that denying horrible war crimes isn't just a hobby of the developing world.
The below item appeared in Daily Variety.
Docs offer rival visions of Nanking
Mizushima, Leonsis take on massacre
By MARK SCHILLING
Satoru Mizushima's docu will refute 'Nanking.'Helmer Satoru Mizushima
will make a documentary correcting what he describes as the "myth" of
the Nanking Massacre.
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Mizushima is irked by the spate of docs about the 1937 event in which
Japanese soldiers killed 200,000 Chinese in the city, also known as
Nanjing, over eight weeks.
These documentaries include "Nanking," produced by AOL vice chairman
Ted Leonsis. Fortissimo acquired rights to that doc at Sundance on
Wednesday.
Mizushima announced his plans Wednesday at a Tokyo hotel, surrounded
by right-wing politicos and others backing the production. His
supporters include Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara.
The massacre has long been a matter of dispute between China and
Japan. Japanese revisionists set the numbers of dead far lower than
Chinese figures, while exonerating Japanese troops of atrocities now
accepted as fact by the vast majority of Chinese.
References to the massacre have been cut from Japanese school tests
despite vigorous Chinese protests.
Mizushima claims Leonsis' doc is "based on fabrications and gives a
false impression" of the Japanese military's actions.
He plans to release his pic, with a distrib yet to be announced, to
coincide with the 70th anniversary of the event.
China plans its own anniversary release with a film jointly produced
by Gerald Green's Viridian Entertainment and the Jiangsu provincial
government.
Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong and London's Transworld
Pictures also have announced projects on the subject.
Posted by b-applegate at January 27, 2007 5:41 AM
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