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- Spoilers (10)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- A teenage brother and his little sister take a bath together naked. Nothing sexual.
- A little girl runs around with a blanket naked.
- In one scene, the older brother is wearing minimal clothing meaning you can see his behind this only happens once
- We see a little girl (about three years old, a toddler) standing bare naked in front of her little shelter. He can see her full naked front and a tiny little X is drawn in her pelvic region to seemingly represent her genitalia. The "camera" shoots this from a somewhat distant perspective.
- A four-year-old girl is urinating and her buttocks can be seen very briefly.
Violence & Gore
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- A teenager is shown dying of starvation.
- An intense scene involves a Japanese town being bombed by Americans during World War II. The aftermath is emotionally resonant, with lots of destruction, smoke, and dead bodies piled up along the roadside.
- At a later point in the movie a pile of dead bodies are seen being burned to dispose of the rotted and decomposing bodies.
- There is one very sudden fly-by shooting.
- A man throws a teenage boy to the ground and treats him very roughly after he catches him stealing his food. The teenage boy is later seen covered with bruises, scratches and cuts. A police officer threatens to charge the man with assault.
Profanity
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- In the English dub there is 5 uses of damn (some as goddamn, 2 uses of hell. The other entry says that there's harsher language but the profanity listed above is about as bad as it gets. Besides that there's some mild insults.
- Some mild profanity (i.e. god damn, jerk, hell). In the english dub, harsher language such as "shit" and "piss" are used.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A man smokes from a pipe.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The entire film is very depressing, due to its visceral depiction of the horrors of war.
- Make sure your child is ready for a heart-breaking movie like this.
- Many of the "real world circumstances" of WWII wartime Japan are addresses here in as serious a way as any movie of this genre. Hunger, starvation, death, loss of family members and so on are seen here.
- Dead and rotting bodies are seen throughout the film.
- A boy is seen dying in a train station.
- One scene of a few characters walking through a makeshift hospital (an elementary school), where the patients are seen wrapped in bandages, some screaming out in pain.
- Two funerals, where the bodies are burned over fires in caskets.
- The film is very emotionally intense, especially the ending, which is very upsetting.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Due to sustained burn wounds all over her body, a young boy's mother dies. No detail is shown on it as she is seen in a full body cast and the reveal is more upsetting than graphic.
- A four-year-old girl sees a dead body covered with a blanket; she asks her brother if he is sleeping and he tells her not to look at it.
- The protagonist's mother dies due to the bombing and is seen twice covered with bandages and with bloody eyes, mouth and bloody bandages from head to toe. The second time she (her dead body) is seen with maggots nearby from her terribly untreated injuries.
- A four-year-old girl dies of malnutrition after being seen by a doctor. Food, is all he says she needs to regain her health. Food is no where to be found. Upon her death her body is cremated by her older brother. This is neither violent, nor gory, it is however profoundly sad and heart rending.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- At the beginning you see two characters taking a train somewhere. In the end it turns out that they are ghosts taking a train back to their hometown, which has now become modern day Japan. It shows that the ghosts of the dead continue to roam the land, watching the world change.
- A girl becomes hungry waiting for her brother to come back and starts eating dirt and rock. She has obviously become delusional due to hunger. The brother find his sister lying on the ground, extremely weak. He reaches into her mouth and pulls out a pebble. He questions her why it is in her mouth.
- A child wailing due to the fact that her aunt was taking her kimonos.
- The Two Main Characters die at the end of the movie, pretty emotional for viewers
- Towards the end of the movie, the main character is creaming his sisters body, we see the body along with things that represented her. It is a very sad part of the movie and may be disturbing.
- The main characters mother sustains extremely graphic burns, her body is wrapped in white bandages and blood can be seen seeping through most of the bandages.
