The Cove: Movie Exposing “Secret” Dolphin Hunt in Japan
After sparking widespread outrage over the annual slaughter of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture (and more than 20,000 in Japan as a whole), a graphic film made there in secret has been selected as one of 16 finalists — from 879 submissions — in the Documentaries Competition at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.
Titled “The Cove,” the full-length film directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos and featuring former “Flipper” trainer Ric O’Barry of the Save Japan Dolphins coalition, will have its premiere at the festival before entering worldwide distribution.
In addition to showing – via camoflaged high-tech cameras and underwater microphones – the savage, government-sanctioned killing of dolphins herded into a small cove, the film highlights the dangers of eating the mammals’ meat, reported to contain mercury content up to 37 times higher than the official Japanese food-safety level.
In an attempt to balance the show, the producers also interviewed normal Japanese in the cities and showed them footages of the hunt. The images shocked these Japanese people who were surprised by such treatments to the cute animals, right in their backyard.
Watch the movie’s High Definition trailer below:
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The Japanese are disrespecting the entire world with their tradition of eating whales and dolphins. These are wild animals that belong to the world not to them. Japan’s reputation is going down quickly because of the assaults against the animal species of our planet.