More Ainu bashing trash

Yes, so we're told, but by that logic we should ban "The Birth of a Nation" because of its racism and pro-KKK attitudes; or "Huckleberry Finn" because of its use of the vile n-word; or destroy every print of "Triumph of the Will" because it glorifies a murderous, barbaric regime. You can't fight ideas by suppressing them, or learn from the past by eradicating knowledge of it. Censorship is a greater evil than allowing free speech and thought. Anyway, for the Japanese to express such sensitivity is amusing to say the least, given their utter insensitivity to the nations against whom they committed their wartime atrocities, when revising their school textbooks to whitewash their history of aggression.

If someone finds this film offensive, let them protest or point out why it is so. Or, they don't have to watch it. But the fact that some people are offended by it doesn't give them the right to dictate what the rest of us can see or think.

Besides, since the original hasn't been seen in 50 years, and never in the US, how can you or anyone state with such certainty what the "racist depiction" of the Ainu really is? Everything about this film is hearsay, with no details. There probably is an objectionable depiction of the Ainu in it. But from your thread title, you seem pretty quick to pass judgment on something you have no first-hand knowledge of.

(By the way -- "MORE Ainu bashing trash?" What, is there a lot of Ainu-bashing going on someplace? Also, I supplied a hyphen in the title between "Ainu" and "bashing" -- otherwise it sounds as if you object to lots of Ainu hitting piles of refuse or something.)

According to Wikipedia Japan, the reason the movie has been removed from circulation for all these years is that the original screenplay described the inhabitants of the remote village as being deformed from generations of inbreeding. However, no such reference is made in the film's dialogue, but for this reason broadcasters and media publishing companies have refrained from showing it.

As such, scandal seekers will probably be disappointed by the film, but it's a thoughtful film, despite being quite dated, and will likely satisfy those who prefer a good old-fashioned monster movie.

To correct the mistaken information in the above post, the movie takes place in the Japanese alps in Nagano Prefecture, so the villagers would not be Ainu, since they live on the island of Hokkaido.