AAAGGGHHHH – The sacrilege

I just found out tonight that the reason Japan won’t be releasing LOTR until next year is that they will be busy censoring it to suit Japanese audiences. I sincerely hope this is a foul rumour with no substance, but I have seen how viciously movies can be butchered here…anything that may not make sense to the audience here(or is perhaps too difficult to translate, or maybe even not 150% vital to the storyline) is cut. Of course, I will not really know until I can watch a non-Japanese release LOTR..like that’ll be happening soon.
Speaking of which, is there a group thingy going to LOTR and are tickets already organised. If not, room for one more? (no, not me…but mad movie buff Shanta)