Does the dog die?
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Akira
Movie • 1988 • Animation
ReportA secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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Two dogs are shot, one right after the other, and the blood trail is shown. About minute marks 7:30-8:15 in the film.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Weatherfish
Not explicitly but two main characters are said to be orphans.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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cmrnfry
the government tracks and follows tetsuo.
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Lexichae
Tetsuo is verbally abusive to his girlfriend
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Lexichae
There’s a scene were the coach I think is punching the main characters who are all ~15
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Addiction
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Memvarthemage
Drugs are a main topic in the story as tetsuo gets addicted to pills that repress his powers
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Is there addiction?
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Lexichae
The main characters are all addicted to pills
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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PlatoCrawford
Underage drinking.
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Animal
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Memvarthemage
A dead rat can be seen in the sewer
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Are animals abused?
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Lexichae
A dog is shot
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Is there a dead animal?
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cmrnfry
a dog dies fairly immediately and there are dead rats in the sewers
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Are there bugs?
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fia99
a dead rat with maggots in it is briefly shown
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Parrot
Clown gang members appear as adults.
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Memvarthemage
When Testuo and kaori steal Kanedas bike they stop in the street and get attacked by the gang know as “the clowns.”
They pin kaori to the wall and rip her shirt off exposing her b*****s briefly then pinch her in the face knocking her out.
They pin kaori to the wall and rip her shirt off exposing her b*****s briefly then pinch her in the face knocking her out.
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Yonah
No, but a female character is beaten and has her shirt ripped off of her chest before the assailants can be stopped
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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PlatoCrawford
There is a scene where Tetsuo gets glass embedded in his foot.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Shadra
The character Mr. Nezu overdoses accidentally on his heart medication in one scene and is seen and heard choking on his pills before collapsing. In a previous scene, he is also seen struggling to breath while trying to take his medication.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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tasharomanoff
*SPOILER*
Near the end, as Tetsuo mutates he pulls a character in and she is crushed to death inside him as he rapidly expands.
Near the end, as Tetsuo mutates he pulls a character in and she is crushed to death inside him as he rapidly expands.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Lexichae
Burned in a bike crash.
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Is someone buried alive?
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passerby
many people are enveloped by (not earth but something) and a city is partially destroyed
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Is there body horror?
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Sibelos
Tetsuo's iconic Transformation scene
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Is there amputation?
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CosmoGarden
Tetsuo's arm gets cut off at one point, but he regenerates it with mechanical parts
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Does a head get squashed?
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Memvarthemage
Near the end during Testuo’s mutation, he absorbs his girlfriend who gets crushed by his mass
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Is there a hanging?
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jmaa
No actual hangings, but there is one mention of hanging, and one short shot of a statue with a loose noose around it's neck.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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tasharomanoff
Not technically, but a character dies after being pulled into a mutated body mass in a way that is probably crushed to death but could be interpreted as being suffocated.
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Does someone break a bone?
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ToddCallahan
In the opening, a man has his arm crushed by a motorcycle
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Are any teeth damaged?
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cmrnfry
multiple characters are shown getting hit in the face and losing teeth.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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cmrnfry
tetsuo steps on glass and loses his arm. during his mutation, there is at least one mutated depiction of feet, and many mutated hands/fingers.
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Is someone tortured?
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cmrnfry
tetsuo suffers and is experimented on throughout the film, and there are flashbacks to the young espers being tested on as well
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Is there eye mutilation?
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cmrnfry
during his mutation scene, tetsuo's eyes are affected. in a brief scene, someone is holding tetsuo's eye open with their fingers.
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Is there excessive gore?
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fia99
lots of body horror towards the end
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Yonah
Children are shown to have been placed in government facilities to experiment on them, it is never explicitly stated that they were kidnapped
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Does a kid die?
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Memvarthemage
The physic children sacrifice them self’s to send tetsuo to another dimension
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Is a minor sexualized?
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tasharomanoff
A girl (who goes to school with the main characters and is presumably their age at <15) is sexually assaulted, including having her top ripped off and otherwise threatened.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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tasharomanoff
A character accidentally overdoses on their medication.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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cmrnfry
no deaths are shown on-screen as none of the characters' parents are shown. it is implied that a majority of young characters are parent-less or missing at least one.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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cmrnfry
children's toys are objects of tetsuo's violent hallucinations including a teddy bear, a toy car, and a pink bunny, though the toys are not real and are not explicitly destroyed.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Lexichae
Tetsuo is kidnapped by government agents
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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cmrnfry
there are ghost-like memories and hallucinations. (SPOILERS) akira's form is briefly shown alive and transparent at the end.
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Are there jump scares?
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cmrnfry
in the hospital, there is a surprising scene during which tetsuo suddenly kills many people at once
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Are there clowns?
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Anonymous
There is a biker gang that wears clown face paint.
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Is someone possessed?
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PlatoCrawford
Kei is briefly possessed by one of the psychic children.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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cmrnfry
kaneda wretches in the sewers. (SPOILERS) at the end of the movie, tetsuo's mutation has green liquid flowing from its mouth.
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Does someone spit?
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cmrnfry
people spit out cigarettes, tetsuo drools, and kaneda spits out a bloody tooth.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Maktopus
No, but it's worth noting that the cops are violent.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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cmrnfry
various forms of experimentation are shown to have been performed on tetsuo and the espers.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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cmrnfry
tetsuo is injected with sedative
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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cmrnfry
there is no institution for mentally ill people, but there is a scene depicting a building where doctors collected children with psychic powers.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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cmrnfry
tetsuo is often in a hospital
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Mental Health
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cmrnfry
characters do unhealthy things like drugs and alcohol, and tetsuo self-medicates with drugs. no characters purposefully physically harm themselves.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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beholdyourmom
I’d say one character’s gone close to if not fully insane by the end so yes, but he doesn’t have a specifically diagnosed mental illness he’s just “mad with power”, as it were
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Kibble
A character hallucinates very strongly and there are moments where reality blends weirdly due to that and psychic abilities.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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cmrnfry
when tetsuo hallucinates, he panics and expresses great distress.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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passerby
no but someone else is told to kill themself after a failed attempt to kill himself and many others
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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beholdyourmom
This movie is pretty heavy on the body horror so characters disliking their bodies kind of comes with the territory
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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cmrnfry
two characters are crushed. tetsuo and espers are strapped to a table. two characters are locked in jail for a short period.
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Shadra
Several unnamed background characters are shown to have likely committed suicide offscreen and are seen deceased in a bathtub with much blood around them. Afterwords, a character dies via an unintended overdose.
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Sibelos
The f-word is seen written in graffiti a few times, the english dub also has a spoken use of the word, language isn't as frequent as other r rated films.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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cmrnfry
when in the hospital, tetsuo's power grows and there are various light changes.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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shroomoss
Near the end a character who is not a baby becomes shaped like a very detailed giant baby.
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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cmrnfry
as tetsuo's health downgrades, his friends call him cr*zy, say he's lost his mind, say he's acting like a crackhead, etc.
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cmrnfry
tetsuo misgenders kaneda twice by using a feminine name and suffix, though kaneda is not explicitly transgender
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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tasharomanoff
During an assault, an underage girl's chest is exposed.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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cmrnfry
various times, background characters are shown being intimate though not explicitly. a young female character's chest is exposed briefly.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Weatherfish
Not really but a male character is ridiculed for being weak/wimpy.
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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tasharomanoff
Not traditionally, but the espers could be construed as having a chronic condition.
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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beholdyourmom
Not “debated”, per se, but there is lots of existential talk and many themes relating to reality and the universe.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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PlatoCrawford
It's bittersweet; many people are dead, but there is implied to be hope for rebuilding Neo Tokyo.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Lexichae
bike crashes happen a couple times
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Does a plane crash?
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Memvarthemage
There is a scene when satellites fall from space but no planes
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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cmrnfry
in the sewer scene, characters are pushed under water but are never in danger of drowning. people also die in water from other causes. the city is flooded and destroyed at the end. there are no drowning scenes/no one dies from drowning.
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Is there blood/gore?
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cmrnfry
tetsuo steps on glass. characters fight and end up bloody. a character is crushed. tetsuo hallucinates gore.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Memvarthemage
The movie begins and ends with an explosion
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Is there gun violence?
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denialol
Several graphic scenes of gun violence, with explosive sprays of blood and gore.
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