{"id":25470,"date":"2020-12-07T19:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/monster-hunter-film-pulled-china-scene-sparks-backlash"},"modified":"2020-12-07T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:44:48","slug":"monster-hunter-film-pulled-from-china-after-scene-sparks-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25470","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter film pulled from China after scene sparks backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Screenings cancelled one day after release following anger over pun seen as racially offensive<\/p>\n<p>The fantasy film Monster Hunter has been pulled from Chinese cinemas one day after its release after a scene where characters make a pun with the words \u201cknees\u201d and \u201cChinese\u201d sparked offence.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, based on the popular Capcom video game series, was released in China on Friday, weeks ahead of its planned US launch. However, cinemas quickly began cancelling screenings and refunding tickets after clips of the short scene spread across Chinese social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/monster-hunter-film-pulled-china-scene-sparks-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenings cancelled one day after release following anger over pun seen as racially offensiveThe fantasy film Monster Hunter has been pulled from Chinese cinemas one day after its release after a scene where characters make a pun with the words \u201cknees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,69,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-film","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25471,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470\/revisions\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}