Originally posted by YellowLabLover
Come on now, stop and think:

Do you think a movie company would actually allow a movie to be made where animals are put in danger where they can get really hurt and die!? Um...yeah...if they want lawsuits up the wazoo. Common sense.
That's why the movie was made in Japan. Apparently the director was going to produce the movie in the US but there were laws that forbidded it, so he decided to do it in his homeland of Japan where there were no such laws.