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Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove, an Oscar-winning documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, is kicking up serious fuss as it finally secures a release in that country.

Protests by fisherman from the town of Taji, the location of the annual dolphin cull, dissuaded Japanese distributors from putting the film into cinemas. In an attempt to cool tempers, Unplugged Pictures, which took on the doc, agreed to pixel-out fishermen’s faces in the Japanese version, but the anger has only become fiercer as the June 26th release date looms. Street protests and sabotage threats have caused two cinemas to cancel bookings of the film.