Eight Hundred, The

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Synopsis

Mandarin-language War/Drama. In 1937, a group of Chinese soldiers defend a warehouse in Shanghai from a siege by the Japanese army.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of vulgar expressions; infrequent use of cursing, profanity, scatological slang, and sexual and ethno-cultural slurs
• Pervasive portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence in a war context, some in a torture context - much blood and detail
• Infrequent buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of smoking and alcohol use in recreational and historical contexts

Thematic elements

• Perspectives on courage
• Heroism
• The Second Sino-Japanese War

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for brutal, gory violence in a historical war context

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