Kensuke's Kingdom

Movie • 2024  

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A young boy Michael is taken by his family on a round-the-world sailing trip. But when a storm strikes, Michael and his dog Stella are swept overboard and washed up on a remote island. They struggle to survive, but one day Michael wakes to find fresh fish and coconut milk by his cave. He discovers his mysterious benefactor is Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, creator of a treetop kingdom and protector of the orangutans. Slowly, communicating through drawings rather than words, Michael and Kensuke form a friendship. But something threatens to destroy the fragile world Kensuke has created. A thrilling adventure story with a poignant message that will resonate with audiences across the world.

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Stella the dog is in peril a couple of times, but survives.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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a bird jumps out after tension builds up
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Is there blood/gore?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there audio gore?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there a hanging?
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Kensuke was forced to abandon his son when he was drafted for WWII. We see his son cling to him before he leaves.
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Abuse
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone stalked?
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I wouldn't consider it stalking, but for a few days Michael knows that someone else is on the island and watching him somewhere because the stranger leaves him food and water while he is asleep.
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Animal
Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Stella survives and the animals that die aren’t considered to be pets.
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Brief shots of a dead orangutan.
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there spiders?
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There is a brief shot of a spider in a web.
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Are animals abused?
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Wild animals are shot at, knocked out with tranquillizer darts, captured, caged and shipped away from their natural habitat by hunters.
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Are there bugs?
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Occasionally we see a shot of a mother bug with her eggs on a leaf. Ants are seen crawling on a sleeping Michael's leg near the start of him being stranded on the island.
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Does an animal die?
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An orangutan is shot dead by hunters. The killing is not shown on screen, we just hear the gunshot, but the body of the orangutan is briefly seen in the aftermath.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there cannibalism?
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A mother bug and her eggs that we see on a few occasions are crushed to death by someone's foot later in the movie.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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When Michael falls off the boat, he struggles to keep his head above the water.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Michael passes out twice, once from almost drowning and the other after being stung by jellyfish. Kensuke also becomes unconscious after being shot, though he recovers.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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Kensuke's son is assumed to have died during the bombing of Nagasaki, along with his wife, as depicted in an abstract sequence. Note: in the original novel, there is a postscript in which Kensuke's family are revealed to have survived the war, having been away from Nagasaki at the time the bombing occurred. However, the film does not adapt the postscript, so we are given no indication that they survived in this version of the story.
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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A mother orangutan sacrifices herself so her baby can escape hunters.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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A mother orangutan is killed by hunters.
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Kensuke's wife and son are assumed to have died during the bombing of Nagasaki, as depicted in an abstract sequence. Note: in the original novel, there is a postscript in which Kensuke's family are revealed to have survived the war, having been away from Nagasaki at the time the bombing occurred. However, the film does not adapt the postscript, so we are given no indication that they survived in this version of the story.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
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A shower gets turned on.
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The ocean is a major part of the movie.
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Gross
Is there farting?
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Does someone vomit?
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Michael eats some red berries, only to be seen throwing up in the next shot.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Is there copaganda?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there menstruation?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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We can reasonably assume that Kensuke suffers from it, though the most we see is his lingering grief over his deceased family.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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For a few days, Michael knows that someone else is on the island and watching him somewhere because the stranger leaves him food and water while he is asleep.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Michael and his dog almost drown near the start of the movie, but they survive.
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Poachers use guns to shoot at animals. They end up shooting an orangutan to death. Kensuke is also shot in the torso, though he survives.
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There is a sequence depicting the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during WWII.
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