#  ‘Sukiyaki Western: Django’ Trailer, Poster Altered after Shinto Shrine Protests 

 





October 07, 2007

 

 

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Japan News Reveiw

[http://www.japannewsreview.com/entertainment/movies/20071007page\_id=2316](http://www.japannewsreview.com/entertainment/movies/20071007page_id=2316)

Promotional trailers, posters and leaflets for the Japanese movie “Sukiyaki Western: Django” were altered after Shinto shrine keepers protested against a scene in the movie where a man is hanged from a “torii,” a gate that marks the entrance to a Shinto shrine and a traditional religious symbol, the Asahi Shimbun revealed on Saturday.  
  
The movie’s production company first received four e-mails of complaint, sent independently by Shinto shrines protesting the imagery, saying it was an “unsuitable presentation” and “blasphemous towards the sacred torii,” after which the Shinto Shrine Association, a group that represents some 80,000 shrines throughout the nation, stepped in and asked Sony Picture Entertainment, the distributor of the movie, if it would not be better if they made a “movie which anybody can watch with a peace of mind.“  
  
Sony apologized “for having caused discomfort” and complied with the complaints, resulting in an altered trailer and a different motive for promotional posters and leaflets, where the torii, and the man hanging from it, was no longer visible.



 

 

 



 

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