The Archive · 1937

Another Japanese Film Banned

Consulate Stops Showing of "Defence Line" Picture Apparently taking their ce from the furore caused by the showing of the "New Earth" film last week, the Japanese Consulate-General has me structed the Towa Theatre, Chapoo Road, mot to screen a film entitied "Our 8,000-kilometre National Defence Line.

As reported by the local Japanese was that the showing press, the reason for the order

of the picture would induce mise derstanding in the minds of forers and -Chinese alike.

The film, the dailles said, aimed to acquaint Japanese spectators with the broblems'eaused by the expansion of Japanese Influence since the Russo-Japanese War and the Manchurian

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