The critically acclaimed documentary takes a look at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, the religious home of over two million of the country's war dead. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
FOR the first time, the National Museum will be re-screening a film due to popular demand.
The first screening of Yasukuni, a controversial documentary made by a mainland Chinese film-maker that raised an outcry from Japanese right-wing groups earlier this year, was sold out at the museum's Gallery Theatre last month.
The museum has decided to hold two more screenings this Sunday for those who failed to get tickets.
The critically acclaimed documentary takes a look at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, the religious home of over two million of the country's war dead, including 14 who are considered war criminals by the rest of the world.
Visits by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the shrine between 2001 and 2006 had strained Japan's ties with China and South Korea.
National Museum's director Lee Chor Lin says that the film's initial screening here attracted 240 film buffs, historians and members of the public interested in Sino-Japanese issues.
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