{"id":386677,"date":"2025-11-18T03:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:36:13","slug":"japan-movie-releases-postponed-in-china-after-taiwan-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386677\/","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

It did not clarify whether the hit animation Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle will be suspended, but said ticket sales had fallen as the row deepens.<\/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

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":3,"featured_media":386678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-386677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115568612689341291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}