“Whale Restaurant” A Controversial Documentary is screening from Fri.Sep.13. in the USA!

YAGI Film, Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), a film production and distribution company, will screen the documentary film “Whale Restaurant – Inconvenient Food” in the USA. starting Friday, September 13, with its first screening in Los Angeles. The film, which claims that “whale hunting is good for the environment,” will also be shown at the historic Apollo Theater in New York, fulfilling a long-awaited event.

Director Keiko Yagi announced the production of “Behind THE COVE” (2015), which became the talk of the town as a rebuttal film to “The Cove,” which won an Academy Award in 2010 and criticized dolphin fishing and was reported by the world’s media as “the first rebuttal from Japan.

It took Director Yagi eight years to complete “Whale Restaurant”, which depicts “the appeal of whale cuisine” and “collecting scientific data on whales” – topics that she was unable to depict in her previous film “Behind THE COVE”.

Whale eating is highly controversial, and filming at a whale restaurant proved challenging. The filmmakers initially felt it would be difficult to produce a film that accurately portrays the experience of a whale restaurant. However, a restaurant familiar with Director Yagi’s previous work Behind THE COVE granted permission for filming, allowing the completion of The Whale Restaurant.

Information on U.S. screenings is as follows.

［Los Angeles］

Sep. 13（Fri）―Sep.19（Thu）

Laemmle Monica Film Center

1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

https://www.laemmle.com/film/whale-restaurant

Sep.14（Sat）

Hang on to the Dream Theater

1625 Las Palmas Hollywood, CA

https://jffla.eventive.org/films/66baa5ed60ad2f00406a2d82

［New York］

Sep.21（Sat）