Minor Changes in "General Died at Dawn"
Tokyo, Dee. 10, With only one complete visual' sequence and three dialogue passages eliminated, "The General Died At Dawn" will soon return to the screens of Japanese theatres after being temporarily withdrawn for re-examina. tion by the authorities at the request of the Chinese Embassy.
The scenes to be cut, Domei learned, will be those showing the torturing of prisoners, while the audible pass ages to be blotted out will include an insinuation that only Shanghai, is immune from lawlessness," a_refer~ ence to the taxation of Chinese peasants and another passage said "misrepresent and ridicule" the Chinese peopl The Japanese Foreign Office origin ally rejected the request of the Chinese Embassy on the grounds that the film had already been passed by the board of censors of the Home: Ministry and had been shown for almost a month in leading houses in all parts of Japan. The film had been approved by the censors because it did not affect Japan, The minor deletions, however, were agreed upon afler repeated requests of the Chinese Embassy that action "of some form" be taken against the
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