Shabondama Elegy (1999) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Lead actor gets unsimulated oral sex from a Japanese Adult Video performer in two scenes; she masturbates another mainstream actor.
  • A couple watch a porn video together (nothing is really seen, we just hear audio).
  • A man has sex with a girl in his lap (showing her outer thigh and side buttock)
  • A man kisses a fully nude teenage girl's buttocks, then she rolls over and spreads her legs, revealing she is fully shaved. She gets on all fours has and the nude man behind her uses his fingers to lubricate her rear (very graphic); after that he thrusts into her for a while (graphic, implied he is sodomising her). Throughout the scene the man utters a blasphemous alteration of The Lord's Prayer.
  • A man carries a fully nude girl to a bed. As he lays her down on it, his erection is visible. Then he sodomises her (with a darkly lit but explicit shot focusing on rear male nudity), thrusting against her hard with her legs pinned above her head. Afterwards the girl gets on top, then begins to fellate him (shown explicitly).
  • A girl takes money to give a man oral sex (graphically implied by head and hand movement), then spits out the ejaculate.
  • A woman is briefly topless.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman drips candle wax onto herself.
  • A man struggles with a girl while verbally abusing her.
  • A man on a stretcher has blood on him.

Profanity

  • (in English) Approximately four uses of "cunt," over thirty uses of "fuck," half a dozen uses of "arse/hole," a couple of uses of "bull/shit." "Jesus Christ" is used as profanity once.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man injects heroin into his arm.
  • Scenes in bars (but no overt drinking).
  • Alcohol drunk from a bottle.
  • Frequent smoking (plus heavy use of smoking/cigarette symbolism/iconography).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A scene involving Nazi imagery may offend or disturb some viewers.
  • The reason why a teenage girl is a prostitute, and the very unsubtle way the film communicates this, may offend or disturb some viewers.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man says a 14-year-old girl repeatedly raped by her father came to physically enjoy it.
  • On a porn set (decked out in Nazi regalia), a girl in Nazi fetish costume performs fellatio on a man (also in fetish costume); then he ejaculates on her chest (all shown explicitly). Some of the semen lands on a Star of David she is wearing. Scene may disturb some due to the symbolism, in addition to the sexual content.
  • A psychiatrist, treating a patient in her mid teens, gets her to masturbate him (shown explicitly).
  • A girl is subjected to repeated ejaculations (offscreen) so her face ends up soaked in semen while she talks (lengthy scene and in closeup). Additional flashback to a porn set where same girl performs fellatio on man, and he ejaculates on her face; and another flashback where another man makes the distressed girl fellate a man till he ejaculates on her face. (all explicit)

Violence & Gore

  • A man shoots a cop (offscreen), blood spatters on car window
  • There are bloody towels in a bathroom, a girl sits in a bath with the water tinted by blood.

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