Is it just me or has no-one else noticed how ridiculously misjudged the MPAA's rating has been of this film? For what reason was it rated R? Seriously, I'm struggling to see how the hell anyone could have come to that conclusion. Surely it's a more than acceptable PG-13?
shareBlood?
Violence?
Cursing?
Half Naked Strippers?
Full-Naked boy-dick?
Sounds like an R to me...
The blood/violence is very minimal, CSI is on network FCC-controlled TV and it's far gorier. Same with the cursing.
The strippers, if I remember correctly (I may be wrong on this), are fully clothed as far as the important bits go, and the boy-dick is only in like 2 frames.
The Simpson's Movie had four of those in it and it's only PG/PG-13.
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Well it might not be that ridiculous as was a very violent movie - i mean a kid gets stabbed in the stomach and then drags his way across a city gushing blood into a pool.
We sometimes forget how violent movies can be. I let a friend borrow this film to watch with his family and his son and daughter aged around 12/13 were horrified at how violent the movie was and it really disturbed them. When i watched it again sometime later i realized just how dark and violent the film is.
Still love it though. :)
My mom didn't think cartoons are meant to be rated R. But I kept trying to convince her that not all anime is Family Friendly like Totoro.
I find it to be R rated material. Cause it did had a minimum number of blood in it. Drugs, and some sex talk. I think White in the beginning was chanting something sexual too. Plus I can't imagine anyone under 12 be exposed to this flick with all those scenes of Black beating up the Yokuza and almost getting shot at near the climax of the film.
My mom's never seen it, but I simply told her there's hundreds of anime out there that are for mature audiences.
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Hmmm...
I would agree with you up to a point and this is coming from someone who was allowed to watch a lot of gory/violent films as a kid. I think when you see kids getting very upset by things they have seen on TV you would start to think twice.
Like i said in one of my posts i let a friend borrow this movie and watch it with his kids and it really disturbed them (as we grow older we forget how tolerant or casual we become to violence).
All kids are different though (as are parents). Kids do like to see scary things and sheltering them from any other than Disney is not what i am saying but on evidence i would say movies like TekkonKinkreet are not ideal to all children and if a film is rated 18 or R there is probably a good reason.
Also kids can see some trully horrible things on the news regardless of watching violent movies BUT just because we can let them see violence it does not mean we should. Isn't it better that a child can enjoy their childhood without being bombared by the potential horrors of the world.
Try comforting a child at 3am crying and being disturbed by some horrible scene they are not quite mentally equiped to deal with is not really great is it. I think there is a time and a place for violent material in a childs life.
I'm not a prude or anything and i love a lot of violent movies so this is just my point of view and something that as i become a lot older i've come to witness and realise about my tolerance of horror and violence and how some other people (adults or children) find it quite shocking and disturbing.
It's your call though - when you have children you can try it out. :)
Lol it's rated 12 here in the UK, which I found perfectly fine.
sharewell, you have to remember that the cultural context in which a movie is released is a factor as well.
share^ True.
Interesting stuff...
In the Netherlands it's also rated 12 but I actually thought it could have been a bit higher. It's to bad there isn't a category between 12 and 16 because I think making it 16 would be to harsh.
shareI just saw this today. How was this any worse then Princess Mononoke... which got a PG-13 and was much much more violent and bloody...
Guess this proves the MPAA is a useless organization.
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*nod nod* I agree^^ Tho' I'm sure that some kids would be scared of some parts of the movie..but it would depend entirely on what kid was watching it. I think this movie would scare my niece and nephew tho'....
shareYes, an R is too harsh. But then, the MPAA hates foreign films.
shareI can sort of see where the R comes in. Violent bloody fighting for one (a kid did get shanked after all, not to mention an arrow in an eye), but the strong language was light and the nudity was really only a factor if you were looking for it. I'd give this a low R, high PG-13. But while a great movie, it's definitely not appropriate for kids under 13.
shareI think 13 is probably the minimum age for anyone to watch this. While it's obviously amazing and beautiful, and often childlike, it can be surprisingly brutal. That first scene of violence, where Black goes to the Yakuza, is standing outside their window, Yakuza goes to the window to shoo him away, and suddenly, SMASH, the guy gets his *beep* head smashed in. I think it comes across as so brutal and violent in these scenes because it's so unexpected, especially within the context of the rest of the film, a childlike fantasy.
shareYou know what's really weird? Here in the UK it's rated as a 12.
shareI agree that this is a violent movie and should be rated as such (I'm not discussing whether young people should be allowed to see it or not, just about the amount of visually or psychologically shocking material in the movie). Apart from what other people say in this thread, in this movie we have children commit pretty nasty acts of violence (especially Black, but not only him), and being in turn subjected to pretty nasty acts of violence. This I found more disturbing than the cursing and the strippers. I'm far from saying that the movie shouldn't have done what it did, it was a great movie and I loved the lack of reticence in presenting the world of these children, it's just that the flick did use disturbing images and situations in order to make its point, and the disturbing material should be recognised as such. The scene where White is being chased by the sinister guy (ending with the stabbing and followed by White dragging himself through the city with a big knife in his belly, and falling in a pool of his own blood) is every bit as unsettling as the cannibal scene from Pan's Labyrinth (and with a real, non-fantastic being instead of the cannibal).
This is definitely not a movie to watch with your family during a Sunday picnic.
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I'm from the UK and the release of the film over here got a "12" rating from the BBFC. If what OP says is true, I'm a little curious as to why the film seemed to have gained an R rating in North America...
Are there maybe scenes that had been removed from the UK release so it could pass for a 12 rating?
According to the BBFC web site it was passed uncut.
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