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Parents Guide?

posted 12 years ago by dragonofskies
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I've just finished watching Tengoku to Jigoku. It's a great movie that i can recommend to anyone. It's the best Kurosawa movie i've seen so far.
Anyway, this isn't the reason why i opened this topic. I've been looking at this movie's imdb page for lately, and in the Parents Guide page, under the Violence/Gore section, it says "some intense and very disturbing scenes" which i didn't come across while watching. It's true that the movie is intense, but in a good way. If you had some indetermination about this movie until now for it could be gory, don't let this guide get in your way. I wish more people would see this. With just 9000 votes, this movie's a really overlooked one.

[–] Suzume-san 12 years ago

I presume that refers to the discovery of the dead drug addicts; I wouldn't want a small child to see that, any more than the characters in the film did.

[–] dragonofskies 12 years ago

No, my intention wasn't that small children should see this too, sorry if there's a misunderstanding. The problem is that the guide says the movie includes "some intense and very disturbing scenes" but doesn't go on and explain what they are. So anyone can assume that this could be as gory as some Miike movies for example. The truth is, anyone who has seen Godfather wouldn't have any problem watching this movie at all.

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[–] bcamphome 9 years ago

I'm guessing that the scene where the kidnapper prowls "Dope Alley" looking for an addict to test the heroin on is the one that prompted the rating, as the addicts flail about like zombies and writhe in agony. The female addict that the kidnapper chooses is in a really desperate stage of withdrawal and her fate is genuinely disturbing.