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Japón has received high accolades from most critics who have seen it, but the film has had relatively limited exposure. It was placed at #100 on The Moving Arts Film Journal's list ofthe 100 Greatest Film of All Time."[1] And Japón won the special mention of the Camera d'Or prize in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Japón contains a number of scenes of real animal cruelty and theBritish Board of Film Classification demanded cuts for its UK release in accordance with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.[2] The excised scenes are described as an unsuccessful attempt tostrangle a bird that then stumbles around injured on the ground and a dog being forced to sing along with a song through the application of a painful stimulus.[3] The film also includes an unsimulatedscene of a bird being shot down and then killed by having its head torn off and the (off-camera) slaughter of a pig.[4] Reygadas defended these scenes, as well as the explicit sexual encounters inBatalla en el Cielo, saying, "If you think about it, what’s so outrageous about a naked obese woman? There are plenty of astonishing images in other films with flying cars and such… What you find in myfilms you see any ordinary day: a gas station, a hunter killing an animal, people making love. I’m not trying to impress anyone with those images; they make sense in the context of my films."[5]
Japónhas received high accolades from most critics who have seen it, but the film has had relatively limited exposure. It was placed at #100 on The Moving Arts Film Journal's list of the 100 Greatest Filmof All Time."[1] And Japón won the special mention of the Camera d'Or prize in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Japón contains a number of scenes of real animal cruelty and the British Board of FilmClassification demanded cuts for its UK release in accordance with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.[2] The excised scenes are described as an unsuccessful attempt to strangle a bird that...