"Dolphin Bay" drawing the local rage in Japan

United States No. 82 Annual Academy Awards time, on the 7th to the Spanish-American Best Documentary Feature award went to Lousi Hoyos's "Dolphin Bay" (THE COVE), the news caused an immediate record of the Japanese film is too in the town of indignation.

The film depicted the Japanese in Wakayama Prefecture town of Taiji dolphin hunting customs. Too much to the town mayor Sangen a high award for the film is full of confusion: "Since it is a documentary, you should record the facts, but the film is ignore our tradition." Town of Taiji Fishery Cooperative counselor Suginomori Palace were even more angry said: "Oscar is not being anti-whaling movement of people to use."

Cetaceans, including whales and dolphins. The Japanese whaling for several thousand years ago have a history of whaling in the western-style law to enter Japan before the Japanese whaling be used as a technique which was respected. Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture is Japan's ancient whaling town, the birthplace of the earliest. Taiji whaling town of villagers mostly living, when the International Whaling Commission in 1986, abolished after the resolution of commercial whaling, too in the town began to transition to the tourism industry.

First time in 24 years as a scientific research whaling, Japan is still allowed. It has become in many parts of Japan continue to engage in whaling grounds. But more by the Japanese as a justification is that Japan's whaling as a tradition, hope that the international community to respect.

So far, a total of Japan's whaling fleet in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 vessels, whaling fishermen and related industrial workers, 100,000. The town of Taiji, Japan 6 whaling bases.

Wakayama Prefecture Osaka-chi-shen-ren In an interview, "Asahi Shimbun" in an interview said that "whaling town of Taiji is to comply with the provisions of the Fisheries Law, licensed behavior. Film but with a party of values to judge the facts."

"National Geographic" photographer-turned Lousi Hoyos is itself the representative of the United States Marine Conservation Society, who wanted to film the behavior against the killing of dolphins.

"Dolphin Bay" Most of the film are Onitsuka Tiger Ultimate 81 photographed from the scene, Louis? Xihuoyousi therefore accepted the Japanese police investigation. Video of the most thrilling scene is the killing of dolphins, sea after blood-stained red. After a lot of people read the film, immediately pledged to join in the cause to save the dolphins.

In the Oscar-winning director, after Lousi Hoyos said, "until they are no longer killing the dolphins, I really won the Oscar."

Sources said the film screened in Japan in June. Onitsuka Tiger Ultimate 81 The fishing town of Taiji Association agent Ishida Seizaburo lawyer said, "this film's Japanese distributor has stopped the film's introduction of work, they want to do after the fishing co-a consensus plan."