Another World (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Tommy Kai Chung Ng. Cantonese-language Fantasy/Animation. Based on the novel ‘Sennenki: Thousand Year Ghost’ by Naka Saijo. In the land of the dead, a spirit guide (voice of Chung Suet Ying) befriends a newly deceased girl (voice of Christy Choi Hiu Tung) and promises to help her find her little brother.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of cursing and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent portrayals of weapons and hand-to-hand violence in an animated context, some in a torture context, some involving children – some blood and detail; infrequent portrayals of corpses, beheading, and dismemberment – some blood, little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of self-harm and suicide – some blood and detail; frequent references to death, suicide, and loss – some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of monsters and transformations – detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions – little detail

Thematic elements

• Friendship
• Forgiveness and redemption
• Perspectives on mortality

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence, frightening scenes, and mature subject matter

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