Winnie the Pooh's first live-action movie 'Pooh and adult I' is banned in China



" Winnie the Pooh " is a popular work group of Disney, becoming an attraction of many animation movies and Disney land and gaining popularity. It is reported that the public of Pooh's first live-action movie " Pooh and I became an adult " was banned in China.

'Christopher Robin' Refused China Release Amid Winnie the Pooh Crackdown | Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christopher-robin-refused-china-release-winnie-pooh-crackdown-1131907

Christopher Robin: Winnie the Pooh film denied release in China - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45083944

"Pooh and I became an adult" is a movie depicting Reunion of Christopher Robin and Mr. Poo who became adults and the disturbance related to it. In Japan, it is scheduled to be released from Friday, September 14, 2018, but in China it is said that the screening was banned by the authorities. The reason is not revealed, but it is speculated that it is part of the "blocking Winnie the Pooh from the Internet" activity promoted by Chinese authorities from 2017.

Thing of inception, story that was born on the Internet in China in around 2014, "Xi Jinping Jintao is similar to Winnie the Pooh." This background explains in detail in the following article that John Oliver, a comedian treated as a topic of a program dealing with storytelling, is treated as "not present" in China.

"Xi Jinping = Winnie the Pooh" comedian that tinkering with story from being in that "does not exist" - GIGAZINE



Single item of John Oliver of in recent memory, the fact that this "has become the Pooh and adults I" Screening ban, the Winnie the Pooh reminiscent of Xi Jinping Jintao has had sealed It seems natural that a viewpoint reminiscent of whether it is not.

However, there is an opinion that the screening ban is irrelevant to the story and it is in the handling of foreign movies in China.

In China, permission of the government is required to screen foreign movies, and the number of foreign movies that can be screened every year is regulated. Compared to the past, although the regulation has become loose, it is not a situation that "you can screen any foreign movies as long as you have a distributor." In such a situation, the opinion that permission does not come out is because opinion degree of "Pooh who became adult" is low compared with the masterpiece such as " Mission: Impossible / Fallout " or " Antman and the Wasp ". Although it is a work that seems to be attracting attention in China rather than looking at the spreading condition of neta story with learners 'seat and Pooh' s theme ... ....

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