[FreedomCalls]

I am speechless!

[LaceyLev]

This is disgusting! Is there anywhere we can write and let our feeling known. Heaven forbid I'm not Asian-American, but my grandfathers fought in this war, I'll be their voice. Grrrrr.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Since when can a city coucil woman tell a theater they cant show a movie?

And what is there to be offended about? "Tora, tora, tora" was a movie that portrays the true events of Dec. 7, that the raid was NOT intended to be a sneak attack, and how a series of accidental circumstances led to the myth that the Japanese attacked without warning.

[CatoRenasci]

I am reminded of the Mad magazine story around 1960 about remakes of traditional films, in one on Pearl Harbor, they show President Roosevelt apologizing to Hirohito because exploding US warships gave the Japanese pilots headaches and ear aches!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

What about being insensitive to the veterans and the American people?All i can say,if your little foreign feelings are gonna be hurt,GO THE HELL HOME!This makes me feel good to be an"INSENSITIVE GUY"!

[billybudd]

This doesn't make sense. The city officials said that the reason the movie can't be shown is that there was a previous booking for the same day. Ok, fine. But then why do they bring up the issue of "insensitivity" to Japanese people at all? The only possible reasons they might bring this up are: 1. Because this is the real reason the film isn't being allowed to play, in which case they lied about the previous booking, or 2. Just to annoy and rile up the Vets with a "You can't do anything about it so nah nah nah nah nah!"
It's pretty obvious that the city officials never intended to let this movie show, and instead of establishing this right at the beginning, they came up with all kinds of fake excuses as to why the movie couldn't be shown. And now, just a couple of weeks before the showing, the organizers are left holding the bag.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This is such bullshit.

By the way, I hope people on FR, start funneling their anger at PC idiot Americans, and not, as they are apt to, get confused and yammer on about 'the japs'. This is not about 'the japs'. The War is over and America won. This is about telling the truth about an historical event and hypersensitivity by American liberals, most of them guilt-laden WHITE people.

They, the PC crybaby libs, insult the brave 442nd in Europe, Japanes-Americans, who were just as American as the next guy in the foxholes.

I am 'offended' that they chose to slap our soldiers and sailors from all races in the face with this latest PC outrage.

[chuknospam]

Geesh, this weekend there was a Heritage Day event in town with WW-II actors & such. 3 actors were Japanese American all wearing American uniforms. This PC crap has gone way too far.

[paulklenk]

Two film crews -- one Japanese and one American -- were employed to make this movie. This was done to show two distinct points of view for the story. There's no way this particular movie should offend anyone.

How much do you want to bet that the people who cancelled this movie have never seen it?

[ozzymandus]

Bump to recall councilwoman Hahn. This is an act of PC stupidity that cannot be allowed,

[Texas_Jarhead]

freakin disgusting - they should all be ashamed

[Gritty]

I wonder if anybody has the stones to ask Nancy Pelosi if she agrees with this decision?

[Charles Martel]

The 1970 film — a joint American and Japanese production — is considered one of the most accurate depictions of events leading up to the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Expected to attract hundreds, the showing on the 61st anniversary of the attack was to serve as a fund-raiser for the Fort MacArthur Military Museum in San Pedro.

Amazing. Somehow in the late 1960s, Americans and Japanese were able to put this film together without any reports of hurt feelings on either side. Today, however, why... that movie might make someone feel *uncomfortable*.

Cancelled due to a conflicting event? Suuure.

I recall the Confederate Air Force (now the Commemorative Air Force) being pressured into skipping its "Hiroshima" aerial program, featuring the only flying B-29, due to similar concerns. The odd thing is, the same people who were upset about the non-nuclear "mushroom cloud" were all cheering during the CAF's "Tora, Tora, Tora" "reenactment". It seems they approve of the way the war in the Pacific began, but not the way it ended. That being the case, why is anyone concerned about the movie?

Maybe it's more the "time-warp" thing, with all the period uniforms, automobiles and such. That might stir up feelings of national pride and patriotism... can't have that.

[Man of the Right]

California is nut country.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Are they canceling next years September 11th memorial because it might offend Islamic terrorists?

[Wil H]

Why? Veterans and museum members say it’s simply a case of political correctness run amok.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS"

..Call it what it is, CENSORSHIP and THOUGHT CONTROL.

[pulaskibush]

I saw most of Tora3, if they can't show that because of sensitivity, then 90% of the movies out there are gone!

No Jesus films, they depict the Jews as killers, except of course Jesus himself (they can show it if they only show the Romans killing Jesus)! Saving Private Ryan/Band of Brothers, bigotry against the friendly Germans. There were hundreds chinese people shown beaten up in those racist Bruce Lee movies.

Pretty much any movie that has a minority/minorities as the bad guy, or a foreigner getting their ass kicked by an American is evil. And don't show planet of the apes, or you'll have to answer to PETA.

I say show it anyway and make a big scene out of it! I also say show up at the city council person's house with tar and feathers!

[76Tiger]

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn concluded that the event would have been insensitive to the Japanese-American community.

The attack on December 7th 1941 was insensitive.
It is also part of this nation's history, and should not be rewritten or lessened in order to avoid offending sensibilities. Third-generation Japanese are no more responsible for December 7th than I am for the institution of slavery, yet we study slavery partly to ensure it never returns.

[Billthedrill]

Hold on here - they're dissing Toshiro Mifune! Those b@stards!!

[SwinneySwitch]

Fine, they should show MIDWAY, were we kicked a$$!!!

[hattend]

Show "Midway" instead. Give the sensitive San Pedro Moron-Americans a real reason to bitch.