This documentary was an eye opener to the reality in Taiji Japan a small town on the south eastern side of Japan. As the director describes this town 'The twilight zone' because to the naked eye you would think that this town loves dolphins, as they have so many structures built with dolphin pictures logos and flags. From the public transportation boat designed in the shape of a dolphin to the dolphin museum in Taiji, one would never know that the town had a deep dark secret that they were responsible for the killing of approximately 23,000 Dolphins per year. It doesn't sound like genocide but for me personally I could not bare the sight of one fisherman killing one dolphin much less ten, much less 100, worst in the thousands. So 23 thousand dolphins a year is a large number, it makes it seem as if the fishermen are the Nazi's and the dolphins are the Jews. Simply put what is happening out there is sick, just sick.

The documentary couldn't even explain in full detail why exactly are these dolphins being killed as there is no real economic and political reason why these dolphins are being killed as the meat from the dolphins is filled with mercury which can be lead to mercury poison which is a slow painful killer of humans, so the reason could not be for the resale of dolphin meat. It really makes you question what their motive is. One person in the documentary did point out however the dolphins feed on smaller fish, which the fishermen catch and when the dolphins eat them it cuts down the supply of commercial fish but that to me is still not a plausible reason for the slaughtering of so many dolphins per year.

The meat from the dolphin has zero demand even if you were not moved by the mercury story people simply just do not want dolphin meat, if you went to Tokoyo and asked the average Japanese person if they have ever ate Dolphin meat they would probably ask you if people eat that kind of meat, which goes to show there is no real demand for it.

Concentrated in about five specific coves these fisherman have specific times of the year in which they go out lure the Dolphins into the cove using a special technique of banging metals rods under the water which in turn scares the dolphins into swimming on shore at which point they gather in boats and using a sharp iron rod they poke the dolphins till they puncture a body part or they bleed to death.

The blood from the slaughter made the water red, a sea of blood, its sick to see that people get away with these inhumane activities and don't feel any remorse. I literally was about to cry, it's sad that the dolphins cannot help themselves to swim away from such cruelty. I commend the creators of this documentary, even though they had to break many laws to get this footage it was necessary to expose what is happening in Taiji to the rest of the world and I strongly hope some great 'Save the dolphins' solution can become of this.