The unpublished video of the Beatles dressed in kimonos revolutionizing their fans in Japan

The Beatles they were a phenomenon that transcends music. In addition to revolutionizing the music scene as such, they were the inspiration and center of admiration for millions of people around the world, including Japanreceived the McCartney, Starr, Lennon and Harrison in 1966. A tour of which we have not been able to see any images until now.

Unpublished images of the Beatles in Japan

A court battle prevented us from enjoying a video of 35 minutes of the only tour of the Beatles in the Asian country. In the images, we can see the iconic group getting off the plane, dressed in kimonoto then perform in front of euphoric fans, in the Nippon Budokan hallin Tokyo, Japanese capital.

However, the video, made by the country’s police, is without sound, in black and white and the faces of the people who appear are censored, for reasons of respect for private life. And it is that, for a long period of time, the image rights of those who were filmed were a major source of confrontation between fans of the legendary band and supporters of the right to information.

That dispute was reflected in the ‘fight’ to get the video in question to come to light. the most conservative they did not want the faces to be identified, since it was to expose the private lives of these people. A dispute that would lead to the freezing of a document that, more than five decades later, could be enjoyed.

a censored version

At the time, the followers ended up appealing to the Supreme Court of Japanrequesting a version uncensoredarguing that the filming is a “historical video” and that there was no point in pixelating faces recorded more than half a century ago, being impossible to recognize today.

However, last 2018, the court ignored these allegations, so the document presented by the police was the one that prevailedincluding blurred faces, and being published on September 25, 2022.

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The unpublished video of the Beatles dressed in kimonos revolutionizing their fans in Japan