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The Bangkok Film Festival ahs just pulled out Japanese director Junji Sakamoto’s Thailand set child prostitution drama “Children of the Dark” out of its lineup.

The film has been deemed inappropriate for Thai society. The film denied a permit to shoot in Thailand last year, according to the Thailand Film Office. But the producers managed to shoot in Bangkok by co producing with a local company.

The festival which begins on Tuesday announced that the film was part of its selection process last month. But now after the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Federation of National Film were told of the movies content, they decided to axe the film from its list.

“Even though the bad guys in this movie are foreigners, the movie contains inappropriate content about child prostitution that does not fit with Thailand society,” said Federation chairman Jaruek Kaljaruek.

Last year the festival pulled out the popular Persepolis. A cartoon based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about an Iranian girl who comes of age during the country’s revolution, after the Iranian Embassy in Bangkok complained.

Persepolis was then later released on one screen in Bangkok and ran for two months.