Director offered edit on pic cut from Bangkok

September 24, 2008 The Japanese director of a movie dropped from the lineup of the Bangkok International Film Festival said Wednesday that event organizers rejected his earlier offers to edit the film about child prostitution. In mid-August, when the Shochiku-distributed "Children of the Dark" was invited to screen at the sixth annual Bangkok fest, director Junji Sakamoto offered to make cuts to make the film more palatable to the Thai audience, he said. Japanese distributor Shochiku was first to receive word of the ban on Sept. 17 when festival officials telephoned to say the "Children" was "inappropriate" for the event, Sakamoto said.

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