Lighting Up The Stars (2022)

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Synopsis

Dir: Liu Jiangjiang. Mandarin-language Drama. After her grandmother dies, an orphan (Wu Xiaowen) is informally adopted by an unlikely funeral director (Zhu Yilong).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of scatological slang, and cursing
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - no blood, little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of and references to death and dying - little detail; infrequent portrayals of and references to preparing a body for a funeral - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of a crude bodily function - little detail

Thematic elements

• The families we make
• Parent/child bonds
• Second chances

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter

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