Is it Japan or Korea (or both) where they eat live octopus, dont remember...
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Thu 7 Jun 2012, 20:47,
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Several octopus, though, were killed and eaten for real in the takes for that scene. It was unnecessary and I don't see that this sort of thing has any place in a feature film, any more than a few seconds footage showing a live cow being disembowelled in a slaughterhouse would.
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Thu 7 Jun 2012, 20:56,
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