Well geez, everyone here knows I am overemotional anyway LOL! Truly, I calmed down a long time ago so I don't think bringing up fighting over and over is doing any good.

My stepfather is Japanese. His last name is Yoshitake, kinda like the mushrooms. Turns out he has the original film of this in his dad's (not alive anymore) collection or whatever. His father was the run who ran the Japanese Heritage Club in Southern California. According to my stepfather laws in Japan towards animals are pretty much zilch, and according to him, the parts of this movie that were edited were not because it was something us Americans could not understand, it was because certain portions of the movie would be upsetting to us Americans. My family is moving here this Summer. They are coming here for Spring break to search for a house. Once they get here I will make sure to watch this "original" movie and then I will come to my decision on it. As of now, I won't pass judgement on anyone until I learn a little more from my stepfather. His whole family is from Japan, so I can learn a lot. Funny, him being Japanese and he can barely speak it!

And as far as it being "just a movie", you're wrong. It wasn't just a movie, there were live animals in that movie that had a *chance* of being abused. Now, of course I have no proof but through what I hear from my father. Even if this movie was made a long time ago, and if I had proof of it being abusive towards animals during filming, there IS something I could do. I could start a petition for people to boycott this movie, and have people stop selling it. There's always something you can do.

Now again, we are all calm, so no need to bring it up furthur.