All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

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Synopsis

Dir: Shunji Iwai. Japanese-language Drama. A group of students (Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Yu Aoi) navigate the harsh realities of adolescence, finding refuge in the melancholic music of a pop star.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of weapons and hand-to-hand violence, some in the context of bullying - some blood and detail; infrequent portrayals of injury and corpses - some blood, little detail
• One portrayal of a sexual assault - no nudity, little detail
• Infrequent references to, and portrayals of, mature subject matter including themes of suicide, bullying, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - no nudity, some detail
• Infrequent buttock nudity and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - little detail

Thematic elements

• Navigating adolescence
• Bullying and peer pressure
• Identity and belonging

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for mature subject matter, coarse language, and sexual context

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