A TV executive from Iran became unexpectedly jobless after failing to check the content of an old Jackie Chan movie. The Kish Island network aired Chan's 2009 flick "Shinjuku Incident" on public television last Monday, Dec. 30, without realizing it had a sex scene featuring the famous martial arts actor.
Kish IRIB was inundated with complaints from viewers following the movie's broadcast, especially after Iranian netizens also circulated clips of the sex scene on social media. In a statement, Kish IRIB management said that some employees were reprimanded and dismissed, including a regional director general, because they failed to uphold and follow the country's strict censorship rules, according to the New York Post.
"Shinjuku Incident" features Chan's character as a Chinese immigrant involved in a crossfire between the largest and most dangerous criminal operations. Iranian viewers expected a lot of action sequences. Instead, they had the shock of their life when the sex scene popped up on screen.
The said scenario featured Chan's character having an intimate moment with a prostitute. It's a violation of Iran's laws especially when actresses are not even allowed to shake hands with actors on the screen.
According to BBC, even casual jokes exchanged between a man and a woman on film or television are usually edited out of the screening. Iranian censors also cut scenes showing unveiled women, a close up of the actresses' faces, or women characters with exposed necklines.
But some Iranians also criticized the sacking as a hypocritical decision. They cited that no one has been fired following a recent bus crash that killed less than a dozen students of Azad University in Tehran.
Meanwhile, Chan recently released an English version of his 2015 memoir called "Never Grow Up." The actor opened up and discussed how he behaved like a real jerk as a young adult when he couldn't handle his wealth, his relationships and his drinking habits.
Chan confessed in the brutally honest memoir that when he started earning millions for his movies, he felt invincible. He spent most of his young life drinking, partying and womanizing.
The actor also admitted that he was not a good father to his children. He cited that he hit his son Jaycee when he was still very little and drove him and his mother away, for which he ended up regretting.
Chan's memoir received a lot of criticisms. The actor, however, said that he decided to publish his life story to serve as a lesson for other men, especially fathers, to avoid the same mistakes he made.
