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Sex & Nudity

  • Very little, if any, sexual references. Just dialogue referencing romantic relationships, infidelity, and arranged marriages.
  • A woman asks a young girl to cover up her exposed knees with her kimono because it's not ladylike.
  • A brief scene where a young girl is taking a bath, but aside from the top of her shoulders and breasts, no nudity is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • Aside from a woman flinching at a syringe being injected into her arm, there is no violence at any point.
  • A man aggressively snatches a camera from another man's hands and smashes it on the floor.
  • A drunk man accidentally trips and falls on a table in a bar, tipping over the seated customer's drinks.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man and a woman, in two separate scenes, casually and briefly smoke a cigarette.
  • A brief reference to beer.
  • It hardly counts, but a woman has a Vitamin B deficiency and gets it injected into her arm as a result.
  • At a dinner scene, characters drink Sake, which is a hot vodka.
  • Two characters are shown to be intoxicated at a bar while drinking from their glasses. Extras are shown casually smoking in the background.
  • Two women are drinking a glass of wine in one scene.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some brief thematic elements like family arguments, heated arguments between other characters, relationship drama, and arranged marriages.

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Violence & Gore

  • A man is shown bandaged at a hospital, in severe pain from an advanced ear infection. It's discussed that if he doesn't get surgery soon, it could kill him.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A brief, albeit sad moment, where a mother cries after hearing that her son didn't survive an ear infection surgery.

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