Does the dog die?
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Akira
Movie • 1988 • Animation
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A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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Two dogs are shot, one right after the other, and the blood trail is shown. About minute marks 7:30-8:15 in the film.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Not explicitly but two main characters are said to be orphans.
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Abuse
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There’s a scene were the coach I think is punching the main characters who are all ~15
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Tetsuo is verbally abusive to his girlfriend
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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the government tracks and follows tetsuo.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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The main characters are all addicted to pills
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Underage drinking.
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Drugs are a main topic in the story as tetsuo gets addicted to pills that repress his powers
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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A dog is shot
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Are there bugs?
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a dead rat with maggots in it is briefly shown
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Is there a dead animal?
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a dog dies fairly immediately and there are dead rats in the sewers
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A dead rat can be seen in the sewer
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Assault
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No, but a female character is beaten and has her shirt ripped off of her chest before the assailants can be stopped
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When Testuo and kaori steal Kanedas bike they stop in the street and get attacked by the gang know as “the clowns.”
They pin kaori to the wall and rip her shirt off exposing her b*****s briefly then pinch her in the face knocking her out.
They pin kaori to the wall and rip her shirt off exposing her b*****s briefly then pinch her in the face knocking her out.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Clown gang members appear as adults.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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during his mutation scene, tetsuo's eyes are affected. in a brief scene, someone is holding tetsuo's eye open with their fingers.
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Is there excessive gore?
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lots of body horror towards the end
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Is someone tortured?
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tetsuo suffers and is experimented on throughout the film, and there are flashbacks to the young espers being tested on as well
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Is there body horror?
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Tetsuo's iconic Transformation scene
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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tetsuo steps on glass and loses his arm. during his mutation, there is at least one mutated depiction of feet, and many mutated hands/fingers.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Near the end during Testuo’s mutation, he absorbs his girlfriend who gets crushed by his mass
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Are any teeth damaged?
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multiple characters are shown getting hit in the face and losing teeth.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Burned in a bike crash.
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Is there a hanging?
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No actual hangings, but there is one mention of hanging, and one short shot of a statue with a loose noose around it's neck.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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There is a scene where Tetsuo gets glass embedded in his foot.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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*SPOILER*
Near the end, as Tetsuo mutates he pulls a character in and she is crushed to death inside him as he rapidly expands.
Near the end, as Tetsuo mutates he pulls a character in and she is crushed to death inside him as he rapidly expands.
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Is someone buried alive?
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many people are enveloped by (not earth but something) and a city is partially destroyed
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Is there amputation?
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Tetsuo's arm gets cut off at one point, but he regenerates it with mechanical parts
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The character Mr. Nezu overdoses accidentally on his heart medication in one scene and is seen and heard choking on his pills before collapsing. In a previous scene, he is also seen struggling to breath while trying to take his medication.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Not technically, but a character dies after being pulled into a mutated body mass in a way that is probably crushed to death but could be interpreted as being suffocated.
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Does someone break a bone?
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In the opening, a man has his arm crushed by a motorcycle
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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A girl (who goes to school with the main characters and is presumably their age at <15) is sexually assaulted, including having her top ripped off and otherwise threatened.
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Does a kid die?
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The physic children sacrifice them self’s to send tetsuo to another dimension
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Is an infant abducted?
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Children are shown to have been placed in government facilities to experiment on them, it is never explicitly stated that they were kidnapped
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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A character accidentally overdoses on their medication.
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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children's toys are objects of tetsuo's violent hallucinations including a teddy bear, a toy car, and a pink bunny, though the toys are not real and are not explicitly destroyed.
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Does a parent die?
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no deaths are shown on-screen as none of the characters' parents are shown. it is implied that a majority of young characters are parent-less or missing at least one.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Tetsuo is kidnapped by government agents
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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in the hospital, there is a surprising scene during which tetsuo suddenly kills many people at once
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Is someone possessed?
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Kei is briefly possessed by one of the psychic children.
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Are there clowns?
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There is a biker gang that wears clown face paint.
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Are there ghosts?
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there are ghost-like memories and hallucinations. (SPOILERS) akira's form is briefly shown alive and transparent at the end.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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kaneda wretches in the sewers. (SPOILERS) at the end of the movie, tetsuo's mutation has green liquid flowing from its mouth.
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Does someone spit?
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people spit out cigarettes, tetsuo drools, and kaneda spits out a bloody tooth.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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No, but it's worth noting that the cops are violent.
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LGBTQ+
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Live Theatre
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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tetsuo is often in a hospital
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Are needles/syringes used?
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tetsuo is injected with sedative
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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there is no institution for mentally ill people, but there is a scene depicting a building where doctors collected children with psychic powers.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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various forms of experimentation are shown to have been performed on tetsuo and the espers.
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Mental Health
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Several unnamed background characters are shown to have likely committed suicide offscreen and are seen deceased in a bathtub with much blood around them. Afterwords, a character dies via an unintended overdose.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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characters do unhealthy things like drugs and alcohol, and tetsuo self-medicates with drugs. no characters purposefully physically harm themselves.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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I’d say one character’s gone close to if not fully insane by the end so yes, but he doesn’t have a specifically diagnosed mental illness he’s just “mad with power”, as it were
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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A character hallucinates very strongly and there are moments where reality blends weirdly due to that and psychic abilities.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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This movie is pretty heavy on the body horror so characters disliking their bodies kind of comes with the territory
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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two characters are crushed. tetsuo and espers are strapped to a table. two characters are locked in jail for a short period.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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when tetsuo hallucinates, he panics and expresses great distress.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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no but someone else is told to kill themself after a failed attempt to kill himself and many others
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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when in the hospital, tetsuo's power grows and there are various light changes.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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The f-word is seen written in graffiti a few times, the english dub also has a spoken use of the word, language isn't as frequent as other r rated films.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Near the end a character who is not a baby becomes shaped like a very detailed giant baby.
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Prejudice
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tetsuo misgenders kaneda twice by using a feminine name and suffix, though kaneda is not explicitly transgender
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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as tetsuo's health downgrades, his friends call him cr*zy, say he's lost his mind, say he's acting like a crackhead, etc.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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various times, background characters are shown being intimate though not explicitly. a young female character's chest is exposed briefly.
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Are there nude scenes?
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During an assault, an underage girl's chest is exposed.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Not really but a male character is ridiculed for being weak/wimpy.
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Not traditionally, but the espers could be construed as having a chronic condition.
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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Not “debated”, per se, but there is lots of existential talk and many themes relating to reality and the universe.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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It's bittersweet; many people are dead, but there is implied to be hope for rebuilding Neo Tokyo.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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bike crashes happen a couple times
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Does a plane crash?
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There is a scene when satellites fall from space but no planes
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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tetsuo steps on glass. characters fight and end up bloody. a character is crushed. tetsuo hallucinates gore.
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Does someone drown?
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in the sewer scene, characters are pushed under water but are never in danger of drowning. people also die in water from other causes. the city is flooded and destroyed at the end. there are no drowning scenes/no one dies from drowning.
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Is there gun violence?
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Several graphic scenes of gun violence, with explosive sprays of blood and gore.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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The movie begins and ends with an explosion
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