The Cove, is an Oscar-winning documentary about an annual dolphin hunt in Japan.  The film follows a group of activists who struggle with Japanese police and fishermen to gain access to a cove in Taiji, Japan, where the dolphins are herded under cover of darkness and then slaughtered for their unhealthy meat.

Scheduled screenings at two cinemas in Tokyo have been cancelled over fears of protests, in addition a screening in Osaka has been cancelled.

Unplugged, the distributor for the film says negotiations are continuing to show the film at 213 other theatres in Japan this summer.

The film was produced by Ric O'Barry, who captured and trained five dolphins in the 60s for the television program Flipper It was during this work that O'Barry came to believe that deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and self-aware dolphins should never be subjected to human captivity, much less hunted and killed for their meat.