Source: Japan News Reveiw
http://www.japannewsreview.com/entertainment/movies/20071007page_id=2316
Promotional trailers, posters and leaflets for the Japanese movie “Sukiyaki Western: Django” were altered after Shinto shrine keepers protested against a scene in the movie where a man is hanged from a “torii,” a gate that marks the entrance to a Shinto shrine and a traditional religious symbol, the Asahi Shimbun revealed on Saturday.
The movie’s production company first received four e-mails of complaint, sent independently by Shinto shrines protesting the imagery, saying it was an “unsuitable presentation” and “blasphemous towards the sacred torii,” after which the Shinto Shrine Association, a group that represents some 80,000 shrines throughout the nation, stepped in and asked Sony Picture Entertainment, the distributor of the movie, if it would not be better if they made a “movie which anybody can watch with a peace of mind.“
Sony apologized “for having caused discomfort” and complied with the complaints, resulting in an altered trailer and a different motive for promotional posters and leaflets, where the torii, and the man hanging from it, was no longer visible.