Qantas passengers fume over inappropriate in-flight entertainment

Passengers, including young children on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo got a lot more than they bargained for when a steamy, adults only film was shown on every screen.

Due to technical issues with the inflight entertainment on Qantas flight QF59 to Haneda Airport in Japan 's capital, individual film selection wasn't available.

The only solution was to play the same film, starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn , from a limited choice on every screen, with no way to opt out of whatever was picked.

But the film picked by a majority of passengers was the R rated Daddio, which features explicit sexual material, graphic nudity, exposed genitals and sexually-charged text messages.

In Australia, R rated films 'are legally restricted to adults aged over-18 which may contain content that may be offensive to sections of the adult community.'

And Daddio certainly did offend some passengers on the flight to Tokyo with one taking to Reddit .

'Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the whole plane, there was no way to turn it off,' the woman fumed on Reddit.

'It was impossible to pause, dim, or turn it off. Here's the kicker: the movie they played was extremely inappropriate.

'It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting – the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones.

'It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids on-board.'

Qantas is now reviewing how the movie was selected.'

'The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience,' a Qantas spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.

'All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn't possible.'

But the passenger who wrote online about the issue was not happy, even after the Qantas crew apologised, and posted some photos they took of the sexting that appeared on the seat back screens.

'How is this acceptable for a major airline? Has anyone else had something like this happen,' the woman added.