Can you use 観にくい( 観る+にくい) to say that something is hard to watch in the sense of that the topic/images might be hard to stomach?


Example would: この第二次世界大戦についてドキュメンタリーはちょっと観にくいけど、本当に面白いと思う。work to say: This
documentary about WW2 is a bit hard to watch (hard to stomach) but it is very
interesting.




If you mean it is the content that makes you feel "hard to watch (keep
watching)", then you are already receiving some information from that. In this
case, 観にくい is not applicable. It would mean that you have difficulty bringing
yourself to the point ready to watch, because e.g. hard to obtain, tape is
damaged, resolution is too low etc. I think you need to be a bit more specific
which aspects in the content make you uncomfortable.

> 観るのがつらい／きつい _painful to watch_ (not 観づらい)  
>  観て楽しいものではない _not very pleasant to watch_  
>  わかりにくい _hard to understand_

Or as a workaround, 観やすくない "not easy to watch" could be understood vaguely
that there is something not easygoing inside.




If you mean it is the content that makes you feel "hard to watch (keep
watching)", then you are already receiving some information from that. In this
case, 観にくい is not applicable. It would mean that you have difficulty bringing
yourself to the point ready to watch, because e.g. hard to obtain, tape is
damaged, resolution is too low etc. I think you need to be a bit more specific
which aspects in the content make you uncomfortable.

> 観るのがつらい／きつい _painful to watch_ (not 観づらい)  
>  観て楽しいものではない _not very pleasant to watch_  
>  わかりにくい _hard to understand_

Or as a workaround, 観やすくない "not easy to watch" could be understood vaguely
that there is something not easygoing inside.

