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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
1970
Japan
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter is the third of five films in the Stray Cat Rock or Alley Cat Rock series. The Stray Cat Rock films share a focus on delinquent girl gangs performing a version of early 1970s cool that emphasised sex, fashion, petty crime, recreational drugs, and psychedelic rock performed in exciting action sequences.
Read more Bobby
1970
India
Directed by Raj Kapoor (of Shri 420) and launching his son Rishi Kapoor’s career as a leading man, Bobby was India’s highest grossing film of 1973. It is arguably the first Hindi teen film and it provided a template for teen romances throughout the late 1970s and 1980s.
Read more Chanda Committee Report
1970India
Under Indira Gandhi’s direction as Minister in 1964, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting established a committee led by former Auditor-General of India Ashok.Chanda to investigate Indian broadcasting. It presented a report on radio and television in 1966 that was critical of the state’s financial and administrative restrictions on these media.
Read more K.A. Abbas Supreme Court Case
1970
India
K.A. Abbas’ documentary, A Tale of Four Cities, was awarded an A certificate by the Censor Board because it included scenes of prostitution in a Bombay red-light district. Abbas refused the A certificate and sought to challenge the constitutionality of the pre-censorship of cinema
Read more The era of film classification
6800
Australia
Minister for Customs Donald Chipp updated practices of censorship by introducing a four-tiered film classification system.
Read more Emperor Tomato Ketchup
1971
Japan
In Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Tomao Kecchappu Kôtei) children have overthrown adults and a young boy had been made emperor under martial law. Their efforts to establish a new society descend into sexual and physical violence.
Read more A Clockwork Orange
8207
United Kingdom
A Clockwork Orange was censored by the film’s director, Stanley Kubrick, in the U.K. from 1973 until 1999.
Read more Ek Anek Aur Ekta
1974
India
Ek Anek Aur Ekta was directed by Vijaya Mulay and released in 1974 by the Center for Educational Technology. It sought to teach children about strength in unity.
Read more Amitabh Bachchan and Sholay
1975
India
Amitabh Bachchan is the most famous actor of 1970s Hindi cinema and as the “angry young man” is emblematic of that era’s Emergency period.
Read more Sunday Too Far Away
1975
Australia
This critically acclaimed film offers a portrait of Australian farming life but ran into trouble with the Film Censorship Board for use of coarse language, particularly when it came to screen on broadcast television.
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