I watched this documentary yesterday at night. Honestly, the title is everything i want to say. Why in the hell, Americans and Australians who don't have culture in themselves think they have right to tell what the Japanese should and should not eat??Seriously people....America and Australia are the 2 top meat lover nations, we know it, you know it, it is the fact. You telling Japanese "well, dolphin are affectionate, they are intelligent too. They are beautiful, so killing dolphin is sin" I mean who the heck will listen you?? Hellooooo? You love burgers, sausages, bacon, ham, BBQ on Sunday?? Turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas? You have to have meat on every day and God knows exactly how many animals are killed yearly for those two countries....and yet you tell Japan "Hey, you guys are in bloody business! Stop it now!!"You are just arrogant....If you are saying "dolphin are intelligent, beautiful creatures, so they shouldn't be killed. Cows, pigs, chickens, and other domestic animals are not as intelligent as dolphin. So it is actually okay to farm them, medicate them with anti-biotics and growth hormones and other chemical.." wow you shock me badly. That's exactly what Nazis believed in. People, time to wake up and realize your arrogance attitude towards other culture. I give 2 stars, just because I kind of feel Ric actually loves dolphin even tho his behaviour in Japan is unacceptable. Sea Shepard? Oh hell no, they are bunch of losers, uneducated people with racist views. You all need to watch "Behind 'The Cove'" by director Keiko Yagi. Japanese spoke up finally against western arrogance. Wonderful work, Director Yagi!!

This documentary was one of the best I have ever seen. It was really detailed and specific about all the details even if they weren't very fun to hear. It was very graphic and sad but it really opened my mind to how much goes on in the world that we don't know about it. I really recommend this documentary. Although I would sensor who is aloud to watch this. If you have a sensitive stomach or heart it would not be good to watch. Because this is a very sad and bloody video. There are cruel people out there who need to be stopped. And this is what this video is doing. There should be more documentaries out there like this one. Most people now a days give the public facts they want to hear not ones they need to hear. Although some of these facts are hard to hear they need to be said so we can stop them.

This film follows a team attempting to capture footage of the mass slaughter of dolphins that takes place in secrecy in small fishing village in Japan.Ric O'Barry was the dolphin trainer for the TV series Flipper. He turned to activism in grief when one of the show's dolphins committed suicide, fighting for cetaceans to be released from captivity worldwide. In this documentary, O'Barry puts together a team who put themselves at great risk to get this story out. For that, they deserve deep respect.We see the lengths the people of the town of Taiji go to in trying to cover up their actions. We see how the cover up extends up into the government of Japan itself. Most of the film details the crew's efforts to bypass this concerted attempt to suppress the truth.The climax is horrific. This story will stay in my head for a long time. Like all of the best documentaries, it taught me something new, it produced a profound emotional impact, and it leaves me wanting to know more. This is a deeply saddening tale that deserves to be seen widely.

The Cove is a call to action movie about Japan's dolphin fishing culture asking for a halt to mass dolphin murdering use for food. The film tries to show light of Japanese brutal fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. The movie produces by Americans fail to do one thing: get the Japanese people involve! The movie is full of Japanese bashing, and there is little room to bring them onboard. The film wasn't even for a Japanese audience, but western culture! If there is something that is view to be wrong in Japan, wouldn't you at less, try to bring in the Japanese people into the cause?? The film seem to be a what western deem wrong of eastern cultures without giving proper notice on why they kill dolphins. The film just kinda hint at it, but the reason why people in Japan have eaten dolphins and whales is because such sea mammals have been source of protein easily-available due to the lack of Japan landmass. Japanse people go out to the sea to secure source of protein. The film likes to show the affect of mercury poisoning, but majority of Japanese people are pretty healthy compare to United States high obesity levels. While eating dolphin is a Taiji fisherman tradition, it's no different between regional variations in custom, language or diet in US where people eat alligators, horses, and deer game. Fishes here have high mercury levels here too, plus TNT. I believe this documentary should have been made by the Japanese people like how 'Food Inc' ( anti-food companies documentary) was made in the US to show, how nation like US giving priority to special interests over citizens' health, buying votes at international organizations like the UN, using state powers to cover-up embarrassing issues, and have irrational policies in it's farming and ranching ways. All similar to the issues address in this documentary about Japanese fishing. Rather than Japanese bashing Japanese fishing, it's Western culture bashing how they eat. How would it be like if Hinduism film US slaughterhouse? The Japanese people are made out to look bad, and negative light in this film. The film is told through an ocean conservationist's point of view, Ric O'Barry whom in the 1960's help capture and train dolphins for the role of 'Flipper'. He became activist when his lead Flipper, 'Cathy' in his mind commit suicide by shutting off her blow hole voluntarily in order to suffocate for reasons due to her captivity. Is there any hard evidence of dolphin suicide? No. Tantalizing information that yet have proved to be a fact. He spent the world, helping dolphins. Ric O'Barry and a A-Team of Mission Impossible film activists come to bizarro land where the town people adoration dolphins to uncover the truth. Why because Ric O' Barry has it against the Japaneses, he like mocking them in some scenes, because for the Taiji's Cove is the Auschwitz for dolphins. Taiji kills dolphins with spears in unnecessary and cruel ways. Yes, that's truly sad. The film states that the dolphin hunt is, in large part, motivated by the tremendous revenue generated for the town by selling some of the captured dolphins to aquariums and marine parks. The dolphins that are not sold into captivity are then slaughtered in the cove and the meat is sold in supermarkets. It's sounds like the Japanese isn't the one in fault here. Are we evil cause we love Flippers as a child? I guess-- Flipper and every dolphin fans are, since the show fueled widespread public adoration of dolphins, influencing the development of marine parks that included dolphins in their attractions. While the film loves to talk about how bad it is to keep dolphins in captivity. Some marine parks, like Sea World, are nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding, many endangered species would now be extinct. To say that, all dolphins shouldn't be in captivity isn't true. I saw the bashing of Sea World, really unfair. It's really sad that dolphins get kill in Taiji, but indeed it's well-told issue that need to come into light, and I for one appreciate the risks taken by the film makers in attempting to get this story out. It work and dolphins/whales hunting has decrease since 2009, but the overused of Japan when Norway and Denmark kills as much as Japan is chilling to the point that the documentary might be a propaganda film against eastern cultures full of conspiracy theorists and nation character assassination for the gullible. The producers did little to fight for more screening in Japan when it came out and cause if it was going to be solve, it should come from the Japanese people, not international heat. It's a shame. Hypocrisy is full in this film.