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":100395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[73473,73472,73475,73476,73474,73477,111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-100394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-brown-bear-movie-postponement","tag-deadly-bear-attacks-japan","tag-encroaching-bears-climate-change","tag-japan-environment-minister-bear-controls","tag-japanese-government-bear-problem","tag-man-eating-bear-horror-film","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}