Hong Kong’s Now TV given serious warning for screening ‘overly violent and pornographic’ film on adult channel
Communications Authority says station breached TV Programme Code by showing ‘obscene’ Japanese film about woman’s rape
A local pay TV station was given a serious warning by Hong Kong’s broadcasting watchdog on Thursday after a complaint that a film aired on its adult channel was overly violent and pornographic.
The Communications Authority issued a warning to Now TV after the watchdog considered a complaint against a programme shown on March 7 this year to be justified, and that the screening had violated the TV Programme Code. The programme was shown on the broadcaster’s Channel Adult, which is for adults only.
The complainant said the programme, a Japanese adult film about a woman’s rape, was “overly violent, unnerving and pornographic” and would invite imitation.
The authority considered the broadcaster to have breached the TV Programme Code, as the film featured repeated and detailed depiction of the rape and the assailant’s great pleasure in assaulting the victim.
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The violence was also presented in “a realistic and impactful manner that was not justified by the context”, and was “sustained and excessively detailed”. Sexual acts in the film were “obscene and of a hard core nature”, the authority said.