{"id":140631,"date":"2025-11-18T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140631\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:56:07","slug":"japan-movie-releases-postponed-in-china-after-taiwan-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140631\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan movie releases postponed in China after Taiwan row"},"content":{"rendered":"

The releases of at least two popular Japanese films have been postponed in China as the countries are locked in a dispute over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The delayed releases include Cells at Work! and Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers, Chinese state media CCTV said.<\/p>\n

Cinema tickets are still available in China for the hit Japanese animation Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the BBC has confirmed, but CCTV said sales had fallen in recent days as the row deepened.<\/p>\n

Takaichi, who has been a vocal critic of China and its activities in the region, suggested earlier this month that Tokyo could take military action if Beijing attacked Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Film distributors and importers have decided to postpone the releases after assessing the overall outlook of Japanese films in China and the sentiment among Chinese audiences, said CCTV on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers, which is an animated comedy about the adventures of a young boy and his friends, was due to be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Cells at Work! – which has also seen its release postponed – is a live action movie based on a manga about human blood cells fighting off viruses.<\/p>\n

CCTV did not say how long the films’ releases will be delayed for.<\/p>\n

The state-controlled media outlet said Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has faced “strong dissatisfaction among Chinese audiences” in the wake Takaichi’s remarks.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted the films’ distributors, including Japanese media giant Toho.<\/p>\n

Takaichi said in the Japanese parliament on 7 November: “If there are battleships and the use of force, no matter how you think about it, it could constitute a survival-threatening situation.”<\/p>\n

Beijing has since urged its citizens to avoid travel to Japan and told students to reconsider studying there, citing safety risks.<\/p>\n

Japanese tourism, airline and retail stocks fell sharply<\/a> as investors weighed the impact of the China’s response.<\/p>\n

China is a key source of tourists travelling to Japan, with almost 7.5m visitors in the first nine months of this year.<\/p>\n

Beijing sees Taiwan as a breakaway province<\/a> that will, in time, be part of the country. China has not ruled out the use of force to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

But many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation – although most are in support of keeping the status quo in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unites with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The releases of at least two popular Japanese films have been postponed in China as the countries are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-140631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140631","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=140631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}