To reiterate what others have said, he's a child and it's non-sexual nudity, it's also very brief and it is animated so there's no potential worry about any actual children having been forced to be shown naked when they didn't want to, I don't know whether you could get away with an adult man's penis being shown in a U rated film even if there was nothing sexual about it (I wouldn't object but I don't know if the ratings board would agree) but I have no idea what your issue is with that scene, in fact I've never seen any sexualised nudity or ditto panty shots, etc. in any Ghibli movie or any other film made by Miyazaki or Takahata. I'm aware that some anime and manga are full of objectifying underage T & A and other squicky (or intensely disturbing) stuff like that, but not all anime and manga is like that. Not all nudity is sexual, and not all portrayals of the sexuality of characters below the age of 18 are saying that paedophilia or otherwise taking sexual advantage of someone significantly younger than you is acceptable.
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hallogallo
10 years ago
"I don't know whether you could get away with an adult man's penis being shown in a U rated film even if there was nothing sexual about it"
I can't think of any U rated movie but Amadeus is rated PG ("some scenes may not be suitable for younger children") in the UK and features a few seconds of full frontal adult male nudity during the opening sequence. In it's director's cut version (also rated PG in the UK) there is a scene featuring the female lead topless for about 30 seconds screen time. I guess it's all to do with context.
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