Iran doesn’t allow men and women to touch on screen at all, so the idea of a love scene of any kind being broadcast on television is a big no-no.
The film, Shinjuku Incident, is mostly a crime drama, but the sex scene in the 2009 movie shocked viewers when it aired recently.
If you thought that the fact that Chan’s character sleeps with a prostitute is what drew the ire of Iran’s strict censorship laws, you’d be wrong.
The BBC reports that the country’s censors also block things such as men and women exchanging “tender words or jokes,” women who are not wearing veils, as well as close-ups of any woman’s face or their exposed necklines, along with negative portrayals of police and men with beards.