TOKYO, Oct 25 \u2014 A recent string of deadly bear attacks has prompted Japanese filmmakers to postpone the release of a gory horror movie with the same theme.<\/p>\n
Bears have killed at least nine people in Japan so far this year, an unwanted record that the government has described as a \u201cserious problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
The film, titled Brown Bear! and featuring depictions of an animal \u201cattacking and eating\u201d humans, was initially set to hit cinemas next month.<\/p>\n
Producers announced yesterday that the release would be delayed, adding that they \u201ctake seriously the fact that there have been a series of real-life attacks\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n
Bears have been increasingly encroaching into towns due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.<\/p>\n
This week, Japan\u2019s new environment minister vowed to toughen bear controls, including by \u201ctraining government hunters\u201d.<\/p>\n
The film tells the story of a desperate university student applying for a shady part-time job that takes him deep into the woods where he encounters a ravenous, man-eating bear.<\/p>\n
The producers said their gruesome portrayals of bear attacks were not gratuitous violence but a form of artistic expression \u201cinherent to a monster thriller\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, \u201cwe will be considerate toward our real-life situation, and make sure to create a screening environment where viewers can feel safe and fully immersed\u201d, they said in a statement. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, Oct 25 \u2014 A recent string of deadly bear attacks has prompted Japanese filmmakers to postpone the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,143335,143334,143337,143338,143336,143339,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-239763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brown-bear-movie-postponement","11":"tag-deadly-bear-attacks-japan","12":"tag-encroaching-bears-climate-change","13":"tag-japan-environment-minister-bear-controls","14":"tag-japanese-government-bear-problem","15":"tag-man-eating-bear-horror-film","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}