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* ''Film/Zulu'' was banned because it depicts a Zulu uprising. The catch is that it was only banned for black people. White people could go see it in a theatre just fine.

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* ''Film/Zulu'' ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' was banned because it depicts a Zulu uprising. The catch is that it was only banned for black people. White people could go see it in a theatre just fine.



* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Music/{{Melt}}'' was banned during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra due to the song "Biko", a ProtestSong written as a tribute to black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed in police custody in 1977 (as dramatized in the above-mentioned film ''Cry Freedom'').

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* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Music/{{Melt}}'' was banned during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra due to the song "Biko", a ProtestSong written as a tribute to black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed in police custody in 1977 (as dramatized in the above-mentioned film ''Cry Freedom'').
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** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E10LittleBigMom Little Big Mom]]" (the season 11 episode where Lisa is left to care for Homer and Bart after Marge breaks her leg) is also banned in Japan as a part of the plot involves Lisa tricking Homer and Bart into thinking they have leprosy. Japan has a very controversial history involving discrimination against lepers and to have an episode like that air would be considered offensive (though not as much as "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"). There's also the fact that it depicts Lisa, who is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff beloved in Japan]] due to her character being more in-line with Japanese ideals than, say, Bart or Homer, committing deception against her father, and such disrespect is taken ''very'' seriously in Japanese households. Much like the aforementioned "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", the episode is also absent from Disney+ in Japan, and does not have Japanese dubbing or even Japanese subtitles on on Disney+ either outside of Japan.

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** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E10LittleBigMom Little Big Mom]]" (the season 11 episode where Lisa is left to care for Homer and Bart after Marge breaks her leg) is also banned in Japan as a part of the plot involves Lisa tricking Homer and Bart into thinking they have leprosy. Japan has a very controversial history involving discrimination against lepers and to have an episode like that air would be considered offensive (though not as much as "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"). There's also the fact that it depicts Lisa, who is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff beloved in Japan]] due to her character being more in-line with Japanese ideals than, say, Bart or Homer, committing deception against her father, and such disrespect is taken ''very'' seriously in Japanese households. Much like the aforementioned "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", the episode is also absent from Disney+ in Japan, and does not have Japanese dubbing or even Japanese subtitles on on Disney+ either inside or outside of Japan.

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