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Sep 9, 2017 · The world first heard of Taiji in 2009, when Louis Psihoyos’ documentary The Cove depicted the tiny Japanese village’s annual dolphin capture and slaughter in gruesome detail. The now-infamous film, which went on to win the 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary, had an enormous impact on international public opinion regarding Japan, creating an ...
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Jun 9, 2024 · Key Takeaways: “The Cove” is a groundbreaking documentary that exposes the brutal reality of dolphin hunting in Japan, sparking global outrage and leading to a decline in dolphin captures in Taiji. This powerful film showcases the intelligence and social dynamics of dolphins, inspiring viewers to take action and stand up against the ...
Jul 30, 2009 · The protagonist of The Cove is a man who has sinned in his own eyes and has spent much of his life trying to atone. He's Ric O'Barry — in the early 1960s, the world's most famous dolphin trainer.
Synopsis. In the 1960s, Richard O’Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O’Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all came to a tragic end. The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos (rhymes with ...
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The Cove “We need to get in there and film what happens . . . we need to know the truth.”-- Ric O’Barry, THE COVE In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. At last, the truth of THE COVE comes to the
The Cove. Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists as they fight to stymie and bring attention to dolphin hunting in the small coastal village of Taiji, Japan. Psihoyos’ film is unusual for documentaries in that it combines his activist stance ...
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The film shows how O’Barry teams up with director Louie Psihoyos and an elite force of specialist divers, surfers, underwater cameramen, and special effects creators in order to expose the cove. Using state-of-the-art undercover filming techniques, (cameras hidden in fake rocks etc), the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological ...
