Whale Eating Movie "Whale Restaurant" is screened in the United States! Response to Sea Shepherd's TV program "Whale Wars".

YAGIFilm Inc. (Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Keiko Yagi), a joint venture that produces and distributes films, will begin showing the documentary film "Whale Restaurant - SDGs and Whales" (English name: Whale Restaurant - Inconvenient Food ~) will begin screening in Los Angeles, U.S.A., on Friday, September 13.

In New York, the film will be screened at the historic and prestigious "Apollo theater" after receiving permission to do so.

"Whale Restaurant" poster

Keiko Yagi's production and release of "Behind THE COVE" (2015) became the talk of the town as a rebuttal film to her 2010 Academy Award-winning film "The Cove," which criticized dolphin fishing, and was reported by the world's media as "the first rebuttal from Japan.

Eight years after his last film, he completed his second film, "The Whale Restaurant. Director Yagi explained that "The Whale Restaurant" depicts "what whale eating is like" and "scientific data on whales" that he could not depict in his previous film "Behind THE COVE.

He felt that it would be difficult to produce "a film that tells the story of a whale restaurant," as it is difficult to film in a whale restaurant, where the pros and cons of whale eating are widely divided. However, the whale restaurant, which was familiar with director Yagi's previous work "Behind THE COVE," gave its consent for the filming, and "Whale Restaurant" was completed.

The film was also selected by Japan Film Festival Los Angeles at this time, and will be screened simultaneously in Los Angeles on September 14 at the same time. After the Los Angeles theatrical release, the film will be screened in New York City at the world-famous Apollo theater on Saturday, September 21, and at the Village East Cinema for a week starting Friday, September 27. The film will be screened at the world-famous Apollo theater in New York on Saturday, March 21, and at the Village East Cinema for a week starting Friday, March 27.

Whale Steak

Shin Godzilla" Director: Shinji Higuchi

［Los Angeles]

Friday, September 13 - Thursday, September 19

Laemmle Monica Film Center

1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

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

Saturday, September 14

Japan Film Festival Los Angeles

Hang on to the Dream Theater

1625 Las Palmas Hollywood, CA

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

［New York]

Saturday, September 21

Apollo Theater

253 W 125th St, New York, NY

( https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/000061268F1C2865 )

Friday, September 27 - Thursday, October 3

Village East Cinema

181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY

( https://angelikafilmcenter.com/villageeast )

Whale Restaurant" Film Synopsis (77 min.)

This documentary film is set in a famous whale restaurant in Japan. Whale eating has become far away from the Japanese people, but it is still a [mysterious food culture] that many people overseas are interested in. This is the first film to successfully capture what whale eating is like in a whale restaurant. The film also features internationally renowned scientists, and touches on issues of our common earth, such as the "protein source" of our time, global warming, fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide. The director of "Shin Godzilla," a regular customer of the whale restaurant, also appears in the film and talks about "the relationship between whales and gojira.

[Main performers

Mitsuo Tani (Chef of the Whale Restaurant)

Shinji Higuchi (Director of "Shin Godzilla")

Eugene Lapointe (Former Secretary General of the Washington Convention)

Genevieve Desputes (NAMMCO Executive Director, Scientist)

Hidehiro Kato (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)