Memoirs of a Geisha

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A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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Does the dog die?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there blackface?
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Is there BDSM?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Abandonment
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A father sells his two young girls to an okasa for money, they do not see the parents again
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Abuse
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Chyio is abused by the okasan when she is little, but when she is a gueisha she accepts to be adopted by the okasan
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There's lying and manipulation, but nothing that would meet the definition of gaslighting.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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Some children are used as domestics. Chiyo is canned with a bamboo stick.
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Since the okiya is the gueishas house, they are abuse there verbally and with slaps/beaten up
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In the beginning the dad sold his two children.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Hatsumomo and her friend get very drunk one night. Pumpkin, as an adult, is shown to drink a lot of alcohol.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Chicken inside cages around 57min
The cages fall and break, chicken are startled. No visible harm.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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Sayuri, when still being a maiko, is sexually assaulted by the Baron at his cherry blossom party
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There are some scenes where a child or adult woman is being held still because otherwise they might shout, defend themselves or run away
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The main character is sexually assaulted by being stripped of her clothes, but no rape takes place.
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Is someone held under water?
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A woman slaps another when it is found out that she had sex with a man
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Is there pedophilia?
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Children are sold to a geisha house and a wh*re house, there is not explicit images or even conversations about this but the audience knows what it means.
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Is someone drugged?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is someone choked?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Nothing shown but a character falls off a roof and is hurt
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there amputation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A character falls off a roof.
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A young girl does fall off a roof but she does not die
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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The main character is made to cut her leg with a razor.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Gueishas are not prostitutes!
But Chyio sister is sold to a prostitution house.
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Two girls, age 9 and another who is a young teen, are sold by their parents and forcibly taken away, but they're not infants
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Does a kid die?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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Not on screen
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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Mother dies at the beginning, Father dies partway through
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Does someone cheat?
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It’s implied that Mameha’s baron is married but keeps a relationship with Mameha
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Not a toy but there are keepsake items that Chiyo/Sayuri has into adulthood that Hatsumomo finds and tries to destroy
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there mannequins?
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Are there razors?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Not technically a shower but a public bath.
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone spit?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Loss
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Many things and places during the war
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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A doctor makes a home visit in one scene
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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There is mention of a person committing suicide after the war.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Is there misophonia?
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A woman draws a line on Sayuri's leg and tells her to use a knife on the line. It happens.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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You can very briefly hear a baby crying in a crowd but it lasts less than a second. It's in the scene where they're preparing to flee the city because of the war
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Is there shakey cam?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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During Sayuri dance performance there are flashing lights. As someone who suffers with this type of thing, I always close my eyes in this scene.
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Paranoia
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A narrator addresses the audience, but the characters shown on screen don't
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Are there abortions?
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It's mentioned/very strongly implied that one of the characters can't attend an event because she's going to have one, but it's not explicitly stated, or seen.
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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Is there aphobia?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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You can hear in a scene someone listen to the radio and the speaker talking about “our brother H*t*e*” and the war.
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Relationships
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When Chiyo (Sayuri) first meets the Chairman Chiyo is 9/10 yo, the Chairman has children of his own whom are old enough to be taken to the spring festival and tell him whether or not they like certain flavors on their ice, this would make the Chairman at least 20 years older than Chiyo (it is rumoured that he is 36 years older).
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Sex
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A man and woman are seen by a child mid sex but there is no nudity, he’s brief and not graphic. A woman is assaulted when a man rips her clothes off to look at her but again no nudity shown. A large part of the story is auctioning off a young woman’s virginity. A young woman loses her virginity to the highest bidder but nothing is shown. A woman begins to kiss a man and it is implied they may have sec but they are interrupted.
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This is a large plot point
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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There are some women in a bathhouse with towels around their waists, sitting down and you see their bare backs but that’s it. There are people in a hot tub and you see bare shoulders but again nothing more. No graphic nudity and no sexual nudity shown.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Is there bestiality?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
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Chyo/Sayuri talks many times about the meaning of life.
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ladydeath777
Hatsumomo becomes homeless after burning down the okiya, but it's not explicitly shown. Implications of homelessness after the war.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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kaiaaa
Sad things do happen towards the end of the film but the ending is supposed to be happy. I think overall this film would be melancholic.
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a car crash?
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ladydeath777
Not a car, but there is a bike crash scene.
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There is a couple of scenes with an old kind of car horn can be heard.
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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There's passing mention to the bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (something like 'cities turned to dust') but it's not shown.
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Does someone drown?
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cdiamond
It is said in passing that the Baron committed suicide by drowning.
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Is there blood/gore?
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1:09:55 minor amount of blood underneath a bandage, 2:01:40 some blood as his palm is wounded by glass
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Is there gun violence?
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