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At 09:33, the naked mother is bathing her naked son…
At 09:35, the mother kisses her boy’s small erection. The boy laughs; the mother smiles. The rest of the family is eating watermelons. The touching scene is from a movie, Tree Without Leaves, by the Japanese director Kaneto Shindô.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede
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Thank god Japan quit that shit.
Watch ~9min of a beautiful film to get to some shock-factorific 2s scene. If this was a joke then it was a sad joke:(
The Japanese are different from you or I.
@1, there’s so much fun to be had in the Onion’s porn coverage!
http://www.theonion.com/video/use-of-nwo…
Looks like that kiss included a suck.
…and somewhere, I am throwing up a little in my mouth.
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Doesn’t look like an erection to me, but then again, I’m not an expert on prepubescent erections (except my own, of course).
i think his uncut
@8, yes it was an erection.
Thank you, Charles, for smuggling that movie into my life. I never take the time to sit and watch slow Japanese movies any more.
Do Americans really find that weird? My wife does that. It seems normal and lovely to me.
@11,
Does she do that to you or to a young boy? The former is not weird. The latter is.
What would Hegel say about this?
@10 Mr. Herriman, I will take your word for it and assume that you are more of an expert on prepubescent erections (other than your own) than I (but will not publicly ask how you came to this expertise).
Uh, what exactly is the point of this?
@14 i have a boy child who i used to have to attend in the bath.
also if it makes you feel better, or matters in any way, i’m not a guy.
Perhaps it is the Western tendency to view genitals as sexual in all situations, even for a child, that is unhealthy. Hm?
How dare she treat his penis as if it were just another part of his body.
@15: That can be said of damn near every post and article written by Mudede. Just just have to learn to expect it.
@17
Um, kiddo had a BONER (sexual) and momma briefly sucked it. Maybe that’s how you were raised but the rest of us find it NOT-OK when a mother sucks her child’s BONER.
Must be a cultural thing. I think Japanese men are pretty close to dey mamas. Is this like an everyday thing?
I remember reading Vanessa Redgrave’s autobiography and in it she said that when her BF, Franco Nero, was first presented with their baby boy, he kissed the baby’s balls. Maybe in celebration of the continuing bloodline? Yeah, that’s strange, but not quite as strange as playing with your kid’s pecker.
I’ve enjoyed many wonderful Japanese films (the most recent one was Departures), but I guess when it comes to this, I’m a prisoner of Western imperialism.
… and if this is healthy bath time play, what if they kid wanted to get down and eat Mama out?
I’m with 19. I’m all for giving a kid a healthy attitude about sex and its apparatus, but I think you can do that without giving your kid a blow job.
This behavior is not limited to Japanese culture.
I guess that some yokels in the Pacific Northwest think that this is a big deal.
The John Ashcroft “Statues of Bare-Breasted Females Titillate Me Because I’m Maladjusted and Immature’ Award goes to Charles for posting this.
Oh, and never turn on a TV in Europe.
That was perfectly natural and very sweet. You people have such dirty minds!
You’ll probably be shocked to learn that some women even let their babies/toddlers suck on their nipples. Sick, huh?
this is exactly the kind of behavior that causes knitting later in life.
luckily, large amounts of smuggled canadian painkillers can suppress this reaction…
Yowza – I was expecting a baby. That kid was like 4 or 5.
And since when is nudity allowed on Youtube?
Charles, did your mom frequently kiss your boner when you were a child?
To be fair, My problem with it has more to do with the consequences of fish-head Americans and how they can take something like this and turn it into a war. So I am a coward not a prude, fyi.
Uh…Is there any reason to assume that the cops wouldn’t break down my door and taser me the MOMENT I clicked on that link?
Just wanted to be sure before I had to explain the whole silly business to my new cellmate, Bubba.
can a 4-5 y.o. boy get a boner, even?
Back in those days in the Far East, people may view that as a playful gesture, like tickling on the side of the belly or underarm or lip-biting on the neck. Today, here in western world, like the U.S. for example, people might view that as perversion. I agree on Irena’s comment cause people still film their baby breastfeeding, upload it on YouTube and no one said a darn thing on how wrong it is then saying, ‘ Awwwww….’.
You might be surprised on the critic’s reviews:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091823/