Balls!!!!!!!!!
Balls!!!!!!!!!! 8 sheets long!!!!! Ha!
I loved it!!!!!
I wonder if parents will get upset about the testicles in the film.
share It depends on what type of parents they are. I know that in japanese culture this is more accepted because nakedness does not necessarily mean sex.America is a country founded on a fear of the nude. That is why on the totoro board people have gone crazy over the father taking a bath with his children. In Japanese culture it is customary for children to bath with their parents. I know I am getting off the point but it is a very vast issue,but getting back to the coconuts.
When I have children I will not hesitate to show this movie because it is a very cute story with a deep meaning in which I have felt before. I think all children should know the difference between boys and girls from the start. I always did. but it is funny now that I think about it there were these boys who lived next door to me when I was a child who didn't know that girls didn't have penises, Mind you they were about five and six but the point is their parents should of revealed to them before that time what the difference is.
By letting a child watch pom poko, it might stir up the question of what those little things are and much needed conversations any parent must have with their child. If a parent gets upset they need a reality check and to be honest I thought it was cute. I am very suprised Disney released it.
So lets hope America can be a little more open about it.
The human soul is always free.
Yeah, I've noticed that people in the US often don't seem to be willing to seperate nudity and sex
Totoro is a prime example. People basically accused the father of being a peadophile, when there was no sexual content at all.
On a side note, I've also noticed that far too often people in America fail to make the destinction between a strong relationship and a sexual relationship particularly when the partisipants are of the same gender. I've seen loads of examples where characters from foreign shows have been accused of being homosexuals by Ameircans who can't see the difference between their close friendship and a sex based homosual relationship, even though there is no sexual contact whatsoever.
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Well said. What do you want from a country founded by prudes?
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I find it rather ironic that the US is so prudish about animal balls and naked children, but that sexuallity is often so blatant in US society.
In my own country, we are far more relaxed about non sexual nudity, but we often consider the US to be sex mad. Funny, isn't it.
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What country are you from?
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One that considers itself to be more sexually conservative than the US, but which the US considers to be more sexually liberal than it becaus eof our different views on the seperation between sex and nudity.
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Which would be...what? That's basically every other country in the world.
shareHave you ever actually left the US.
When it comes to this kind of thing, there's the US and then there's Saudi Arabia.
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What kind of a reply is that? Yes I realize that some (maybe all I don't know) Middle Eastern Countries are bigger prudes then the US is, so I apologize for that. But is has nothing to do with the question I, and jojopely asked you. If you don't want to answer just say so, don't give a vague runaround answer.
And to answer your question, I do not have the funds to travel extensively outside the US, but I have been to London and the Carribbean.
Sorry to put it like this, but what was your question. This is a long thread and all that you asked was "Which would be...what?".
Could you please be a little more specific so that I can give you s specific response.
Right now, I'm not exactly certain what you are refering to as I raised a number of different points.
"And to answer your question, I do not have the funds to travel extensively outside the US, but I have been to London and the Carribbean"
Not meaning to be offensive or anything, but I've travelled a bit further than this, and I have yet to encounter a single western country that is so sexually conservative when it comes to this area of the media. Even many conservatiove Asian countries wouldn't even blink at this.
Even in some Islamic countries (I can't speak for all, mind you, as I don't have a universal range of experience), animal genitals would not be an issue nor would the naked children in other studeo Ghibli films like Tonari no totoro.
For example, it is comon for childrens media in many countries to have naked children on it, but this is all but forbidden in the US. No network would dare show a an anatomically correct baby boy or girl even in a perfectly ordinary context like the changine of a daiper. Networks have even been known to blur out the butt crack scenes on shows like the simpsons or Family guy even when they are show outside of normal childrens program hours.
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I don't know what to make of that reply because a lot of it had nothing to do with what I posted. All we were asking you is where you are from, it's not that hard a question.
Not meaning to be offensive or anything, but I've travelled a bit further than this, and I have yet to encounter a single western country that is so sexually conservative when it comes to this area of the media. Even many conservatiove Asian countries wouldn't even blink at this.
What was the point of this? You asked me if I had traveled outside the US, and I answered that. I never said anything about their views on nudity. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you on anything. share
My nationality is not really that important, all that is important is that it goves me a different perspective from most US residents.
"What was the point of this?"
For me to get my views across to anybody who might be reading and be interested in them.
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My nationality is not really that important, all that is important is that it goves me a different perspective from most US residents.
Well that's all well and good, but it's hard to get excatly what kind of perspective. Could you least give a continent? share
No offence, but I would leave myself open to "Your bias because..." or "you hate America/freedom/democracy etc" and all of those kind of arguments if I said where I'm from. If I don't then people can't tailor an argument against me and have to think more before they type rather than using stereo types.
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Fine, I don't really care anymore.
sharewtf is wrong with you?? He simply asked what country you are from. Obviously the people on this thread aren't going to rag on you because of some anti-american stereotypes.
They are in agreement taht america sucks as far as our openess to to sexual content goes.
I don't think you are from another country at all. Because you refuse to say where you are from. You are likely another american pretending like you are from another country, because it's so cool not to be american.
"Obviously the people on this thread aren't going to rag on you because of some anti-american stereotypes."
Actually, it is the other way round. People on this board tend to label you based on where you come from if you say anything agaisnt any element of US culture.
For example, if I said that I was Japanese I would end up with a load of people calling me a pervert who was critisizing US morals because I didn't have any myself.
If I said that I was French, I'd probably be critisized for critisizing America because of the perception that some people have that French people are cultural snobs who critisize America regardless.
If I said that I was British, I'd probably have a load of colonial stuff thrown in my face and be told that Britain no longer rulled the word and that I should get over it.
It's sad, but the second that you reveal your nationalisty, people come out of the woodwork and say that you are only saying what you are because of where you come from. Not because you have observed what is going on in the world.
"it's so cool not to be american"
In my experience, many non Americans are simply fed up with America, it's not a fasion, its wearyness.
I've had people trying to tell me that the reason that I don't like XYZ about the US, is because I'm jeliouse, or because I don't have democracy, or freedom, or even because I'm a racist, which is just plain silly.
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Well I was actually reffering this particular thread. No one on here seemed to be in disagreement with you, so I didn't see the harm in letting them know what country you originated from?
I for one like to know where a person is from when conversing via messageboard, because knowing the cultural background of someone can give you insight to why they may believe and or support the things they do.
Personally as an American I hate this country, and I wish I could move to Canada or somewhere like that.
But yeah unfotunately I have seen it all too often that people on messageboards tend to be biased against non-americans when debating issues.
But I have also seen the opposite side of that. where europeans like to pigeonhole all americans as stereotypical fundamental rednecks (I am no *beep* redneck I'll tell you that right now).
I think I recognize your sig from some of the other Ghibli forums on here as well?
Well, there is our first hint. A country under a non-democratic government. Any guessers?
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Seems that most people here are idiots, and I am sure I look like another one.
"Any guessers?"
I think that you missed the points. I do come from a free and democratic country, but I have, in the past, been greeted by people who try to tell me that my democracy isn't as good as America's and I'm not as free as people in America are, when in fact I actually have more democracy (at least in my opinion because American politics is dominated by two parties when we have a more even distribution of power between several parties, and lobiest have far less power over policy), and more freedom (especially in terms privacy, as our government doesn't spy on us or have no-fly lists, and it doesn't allow federal agencies to run riot in the name of fighting terrorism).
I'm not looking to face off over this as it is pointless, I'm just sick and tired of people trying to tell me that I think like I do because of where I'm from, and then denegrating my country by saying that X is better in America or that America has more Y, and that I'm jelous or something equally obserd (if I wanted what America has, I'd just apply for citizenship like everybody else, I've got a pretty good shot at being granted it).
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I just picked mine up here in Canada, and was pretty surprised that it was rated "G". Not that I don't think it's s great film, but aside from the raccoon testicles, the tanuki do kill at least three humans, and a number of raccoons die on screen, sometimes realistically. I think it would be a good idea for parents to see this film with their kids to talk about some of these elements.
That said, I'm really pleased with Disney having the... well... "Raccoon Pouches" to release this great film uncensored despite the content. The "Raccoon Pouch" euphemism is a fig-leaf I can live with. :) It also does a good job of explaining the japanese cultural elements without dumbing it down for a North American audience.
over here in australia it is rated pg for low level violence ....I think that's what they said it was rated pg for...(I've lent my dvd to a friend so I can't check now)
I just cracked up laughing. You would think that trick would hurt!
Yea it's rated PG here in America (at least I am 99.9% sure. The DVD is downstairs but I remember it saying PG)
And sadly the PG rating is for the Tanuki testicles and not the death & violence.
For some reason here, Violence and death is considered OK, but natural anatomy is considered evil :-/
If there were no Tanuki testicles, it woulda been rated G.
There is plenty of violence, and even murder (i.e. lion king) in Disney films that get a 'G' rating.
But if you show some anatomy and it's suddenly *bad*.
I wouldn't be surprised if we did see some churches try and get involved in keeping this "horrible, perverted film" off shelves.
It's not the most popular film out there so probably not many people even know of it's existence, but I am sure that plenty of kids who see the DVD with the cute raccoon-dogs on the cover will want to see it, and the mothers will buy it for them assuming it's a cutesy kids movie. And then start freaking out soon's the movie starts and we see scrotums.
In Japanese culture, they depict tanuki(raccoons) with unusually large testicles. It's not something that perverts at studio Ghibli created. Although, it wasn't necessary to have their testicles morph.
shareI wonder if they will get upset by the fact that, during the ghost parade, three boys are reading a porno magazine (you can clearely see a huge pair of boobs when they drop it).
Frankly, I don't think that most conservative American parents will every hear about pom poco. It's hardly been publicized at all and it's not exactly in the mainstream sector of anime like Pokemon or yu-gio
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