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14A(14A) Brutal Violence, Disturbing Content

Synopsis

Dir: Shen Ao. Chinese-language Historical/Drama. During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, a Chinese man (Liu Haoran) poses as a film developer and shelters refugees under his darkroom.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs
  • Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some involving children and infants - some blood and brutal detail; infrequent portrayals of suicide - blood and some detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of sexual violence, some involving children - no nudity, some detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context
  • Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions

Thematic elements

  • The horrors of war
  • Survival
  • Patriotism

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for brutal violence and disturbing content

Classification date

July 29, 2025

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