Banana Fish

Director(s)Hiroko Utsumi

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes23m

CastAsh Lynx, Okumura Eiji, Max Lobo

Banana Fish

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese action crime drama anime series; in this episode, a photographer's assistant named Eiji meets a 17 year old gang leader named Ash Lynx, who is investigating a mysterious vial of drug given to him by a dying man.

violence

There is strong violence, such as multiple bullet impacts and blood spurts when a soldier fires a machine gun at his erstwhile colleagues, and a spray of blood when a man is shot.

additional issues

There is also discriminatory language when one man calls another a 'fag', moderate bloody image of a blood spattered body slumped against a wall and mild bad language ('shit', 'bastard', 'piss', 'damn').

child sexual abuse references, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese action crime drama anime series; in this episode, Ash and his friends try to escape captivity.

sexual violence and sexual threat

Dialogue suggests that video evidence watched by police officers features a young boy is being raped, and a police officer refers to child abuse images found with a dead man. There are no graphic images. In scenes of sexual threat, a man starts to undo his trousers as he threatens to 'enjoy myself a bit' with a younger man.

additional issues

There is also moderate violence such as small spurts of blood when a boy is shot, moderate sex references such as a criminal asking a colleague, 'Is somebody getting a little horny' and injury detail such as shard of glass in a man's arm.

sexual violence references, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese action crime drama anime series; in this episode, Ash is sent to prison, where he is befriended by cellmate Max.

sexual violence and sexual threat

In brief scenes of sexual threat, prisoners direct unwanted sexual advances and vaguely-worded threats of sexual violence towards a younger inmate. The young inmate is later found stripped naked and bound, without visible nudity, implying that he was subjected to sexual violence off screen.

additional issues

Occasional moderate violence and threat includes a brief stylised knife fight sequence during the opening credits. There are moderate references to drugs and drug dealing. Bad language includes ‘ass’, ‘crap’ and ‘freaking’.

strong violence, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese action crime drama anime series; in this episode, Ash has to survive threats in prison, Griffin is accidentally shot and Eiji is recalled to Japan.

violence

There is strong violence, such as a prisoner pulling a sheet over his cellmate's head, grabbing him by the neck and smashing him head first into a wall, with bloody detail. He then chokes the man until he passes out.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is sexual threat such as one man holding another against a wall as he pulls down his trouser zip and one huge inmate warns his new cellmate, "You give it up to Garvey without a fight".

additional issues

There is also discriminatory language such as a man being referred to as a 'fag' and mild bad language ('shit', 'dumbass', 'damn').

strong violence, references to child sexual abuse

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash attempts to ambush Golzine and Club Cod.

violence

There are bloody shootings. A man is threatened with a knife during a fight. There are also fight scenes in which men and punched and kicked.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are references to children being kidnapped and forced into sex slavery.

additional issues

There are references to a fantastical drug called 'banana fish'. A man refers to 'virgin daughters'. There is use of discriminatory language ('midget'), as well as mild bad language such as 'bastard' and 'ass'.

strong bloody violence, child sex abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash and his group head to Cape Cod to locate more evidence.

violence

There are scenes of strong bloody violence in which characters are shot and a man's throat is slashed with a knife.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are undetailed references to child sexual abuse in which it is implied an adult male repeatedly assaulted a young child over the course of a year until the child shot them in self defence. Included in the scene are images of a young boy sitting on a bed with his shirt partially undone, holding a smoking gun.

additional issues

There are moments of moderate gun threat.

infrequent strong sex references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese crime drama anime series; in this episode, the team heads to Los Angeles to track down the mysterious address.

sex

There are comic verbal references to pornographic magazines featuring photos of women’s ‘cooches’ and men’s ‘buttholes’.

additional issues

We see a close-up image of a woman’s clothed behind as a man briefly harasses her from a passing truck. There is a shoot-out scene, without any casualties, and the opening credits feature a brief stylised knife fight sequence, including moderate bloody detail. There are infrequent moderate references to a fictional psychedelic drug. Bad language includes ‘cooch’, ‘balls’, 'bastard' and ‘damn’.

moderate violence, bloody images, threat, drug references, sexual assault

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Shunichi and Eiji are attacked at Dawson's house.

violence

Moderate violence includes scenes in which people are punched, hit over the head and choked.

threat and horror

There are scenes of gun and knife threat. A woman and child are kidnapped and held hostage but escape unharmed.

drugs

There are references to how a fictional drug was created and how it can have a hallucinatory impact on users, similar to LSD.

injury detail

There is a brief image of a woman lying in a pool of blood, dead. A man is hit over the head, resulting in bloodshed.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man touches another man’s clothed crotch without his consent.

additional issues

Mild bad language includes uses of ‘bastard’, ‘piss’ and ‘damn’. There is also a passing suicide reference. A man implies that he thinks a relative is attractive.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese-language animated action series; in this episode, a drugged Shorter is pitted against Eiji.

violence

Scenes of violence include stabbing, slashing and shooting, accompanied by bloody injury detail.

additional issues

There is a scene of brief sexual threat. There are also moderate sex references, and there is mild bad language ('bastard').

strong violence, bloody images, threat, suicide

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Sing and Alex plan the mission to rescue Ash.

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, and slashes with bladed weapons which result in bloodshed and bloody aftermath detail.

threat and horror

A knife is played down a man's chest and his captor tells him he will enjoy killing him slowly.

suicide and self-harm

A character takes their own life with an undetailed stab to the neck.

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('bitch', 'bastard', 'shit', 'damn').

brief strong violence, child sexual abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash and company have escaped from Golzine's mansion house.

violence

There are scenes containing brief strong violence, such as shootings to the head with bloody impacts. Other violence includes a stabbing.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A character verbally recalls his experience of being sexually abused as a child.

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Ash decides to send Eiji back to Japan.

violence

There are fatal shootings, in a gang warfare context, with sight of blood spurts.

additional issues

There are references to heroin in the context of international drug trafficking. There is mild bad language (‘balls’, ‘shit’, ‘crap’, ‘damn’). There are infrequent mild sex references.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animation series; in this episode, Ash faces Arthur to settle things once and for all.

violence

Strong violence includes shootouts and knife fights in which there are frequent blood spurts.

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash fights for his life in hospital.

violence

In a flashback scene, a man's throat is slashed with bloody impact detail. A woman attacks a man in hospital.

injury detail

A man has a vision of another man bleeding from the neck and lying in a large pool of blood.

additional issues

A man refers to a child being sexually abused at the age of 8 years old. There are also moderate sex references, mild drug references and uses of mild bad language such as 'piss'.

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash is transferred to the National Mental Health Institute and learns about the horrible experiments being conducted on patients.

violence

A man is stabbed in the head with a bladed weapon. There are also frequent bloody images.

additional issues

A man is threatened with a shard of glass. There are also scenes of gun threat and scenes in which a character is held against a will in his mental health facility. A man displays cognitive impairment after being injected with an experiment drug. There are moderate sex references when a man attempts to seduce other men. Language is mild and includes uses of the terms 'bastard', 'asshole' 'shit', 'damn' and 'hell'.

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese language animated series; in this episode, Ash manages to escape.

violence

In scenes of strong violence, characters are shot including with blood-spurting detail. There are also moderate scene of hand to hand combat.

additional issues

Three men walk in on a couple having sex in a scene which features brief sexual moaning and no strong visual detail. There is sexual harassment when a male doctor gropes the backside of a man disguising himself as a female nurse.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash heads to Sing's hideout.

violence

Scenes of strong violence contain bloody shootings with slow-motion emphasis on bullet impacts, as well as strong aftermath detail.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references, including sex work. There is very mild bad language ('hell', 'Jeez' and 'damn').

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Ash discovers who was responsible for the murders of Kippard and Holstock.

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, with sight of blood spurts.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references. There is mild bad language (‘crap’, ‘God’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’).

child sexual abuse references, strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash becomes an advisor to Golzine who informs him that he's making plans to adopt him.

violence

A character is punched in the face, with bloody impact detail. A man is shot in the hand, before having his throat cut.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A young man recalls the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

additional issues

There are references to prostitution and milder sex references. There are scenes of knife threat and also references to drug trafficking, undetailed suicide and anorexia references. Language is mild and includes uses of the term 'bastard'.

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Ash is rescued from Golzine’s clutches.

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, with sight of blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail.

additional issues

A man makes a discriminatory comment linking Jews with money and influence; discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole. There is moderate gun and knife threat. There is very mild bad language ('damn', 'hell').

strong violence, child sexual abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash and the others flee from Golzine and Yut Lung.

violence

There are scenes of strong violence containing bloody shootings, including headshots. There are also scenes depicting dead bodies lying in pools of blood in the aftermath of violence.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are verbal and visual references to child sex trafficking. A young man recalls his experience of being sexually abused while his rapist took photographs; this sequence is depicted without sexual detail.

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('crap', 'piss', 'bastard'), accompanied by other milder terms ('hell', 'Jeez' and 'damn').

strong violence, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, people try to rescue their captured friends.

violence

People are beaten and shot in scenes featuring blood spurts. There is also a scene in which a rope is tightened around a man's neck.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man briefly sexually threatens a bound man with a knife. It is implied that he is raped, although there is no on-screen sexual violence.

additional issues

There is also moderate bad language ('whore').

strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, the gangs work together to capture Golzine.

violence

There are bloody shootings. There are also scenes in which people are punched.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man recalls how his mother, after being abused from the age of 10, was eventually raped and murdered as an adult by a group of men. There is no sight of the rape but there are images of a woman being surrounded by a group of men, and then later of her body lying in a pool of blood, implying her death.

injury detail

There are images of dead and injured people with blood on them.

additional issues

There are scenes of moderate gun and knife threat. Language is very mild and includes uses of terms such as 'God', 'damn', 'hell', 'freaking'.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

BANANA FISH is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Ash demands to have the hostages released, in exchange for sparing Golzine's life.

violence

In scenes of strong violence, characters are shot with bloody detail and a man uses a drill to kill another man.

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Classified date09/01/2023

LanguageJapanese

violence

There is strong violence, such as multiple bullet impacts and blood spurts when a soldier fires a machine gun at his erstwhile colleagues, and a spray of blood when a man is shot.

additional issues

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

In scenes of strong violence, characters are shot with bloody detail and a man uses a drill to kill another man.

strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are bloody shootings. There are also scenes in which people are punched.

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

There are images of dead and injured people with blood on them.

additional issues

There are scenes of moderate gun and knife threat. Language is very mild and includes uses of terms such as 'God', 'damn', 'hell', 'freaking'.

strong violence, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

People are beaten and shot in scenes featuring blood spurts. There is also a scene in which a rope is tightened around a man's neck.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man briefly sexually threatens a bound man with a knife. It is implied that he is raped, although there is no on-screen sexual violence.

additional issues

There is also moderate bad language ('whore').

strong violence, child sexual abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes of strong violence containing bloody shootings, including headshots. There are also scenes depicting dead bodies lying in pools of blood in the aftermath of violence.

sexual violence and sexual threat

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('crap', 'piss', 'bastard'), accompanied by other milder terms ('hell', 'Jeez' and 'damn').

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, with sight of blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail.

additional issues

child sexual abuse references, strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

A character is punched in the face, with bloody impact detail. A man is shot in the hand, before having his throat cut.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A young man recalls the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

additional issues

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, with sight of blood spurts.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references. There is mild bad language (‘crap’, ‘God’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’).

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of strong violence contain bloody shootings with slow-motion emphasis on bullet impacts, as well as strong aftermath detail.

additional issues

There are moderate sex references, including sex work. There is very mild bad language ('hell', 'Jeez' and 'damn').

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

In scenes of strong violence, characters are shot including with blood-spurting detail. There are also moderate scene of hand to hand combat.

additional issues

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is stabbed in the head with a bladed weapon. There are also frequent bloody images.

additional issues

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

In a flashback scene, a man's throat is slashed with bloody impact detail. A woman attacks a man in hospital.

injury detail

A man has a vision of another man bleeding from the neck and lying in a large pool of blood.

additional issues

A man refers to a child being sexually abused at the age of 8 years old. There are also moderate sex references, mild drug references and uses of mild bad language such as 'piss'.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

Strong violence includes shootouts and knife fights in which there are frequent blood spurts.

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are fatal shootings, in a gang warfare context, with sight of blood spurts.

additional issues

brief strong violence, child sexual abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes containing brief strong violence, such as shootings to the head with bloody impacts. Other violence includes a stabbing.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A character verbally recalls his experience of being sexually abused as a child.

strong violence, bloody images, threat, suicide

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are shootings, including gunshots to heads, and slashes with bladed weapons which result in bloodshed and bloody aftermath detail.

threat and horror

A knife is played down a man's chest and his captor tells him he will enjoy killing him slowly.

suicide and self-harm

A character takes their own life with an undetailed stab to the neck.

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('bitch', 'bastard', 'shit', 'damn').

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of violence include stabbing, slashing and shooting, accompanied by bloody injury detail.

additional issues

There is a scene of brief sexual threat. There are also moderate sex references, and there is mild bad language ('bastard').

moderate violence, bloody images, threat, drug references, sexual assault

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

Moderate violence includes scenes in which people are punched, hit over the head and choked.

threat and horror

There are scenes of gun and knife threat. A woman and child are kidnapped and held hostage but escape unharmed.

drugs

There are references to how a fictional drug was created and how it can have a hallucinatory impact on users, similar to LSD.

injury detail

There is a brief image of a woman lying in a pool of blood, dead. A man is hit over the head, resulting in bloodshed.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man touches another man’s clothed crotch without his consent.

additional issues

Mild bad language includes uses of ‘bastard’, ‘piss’ and ‘damn’. There is also a passing suicide reference. A man implies that he thinks a relative is attractive.

infrequent strong sex references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

sex

There are comic verbal references to pornographic magazines featuring photos of women’s ‘cooches’ and men’s ‘buttholes’.

additional issues

strong bloody violence, child sex abuse references

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes of strong bloody violence in which characters are shot and a man's throat is slashed with a knife.

sexual violence and sexual threat

additional issues

There are moments of moderate gun threat.

strong violence, references to child sexual abuse

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There are bloody shootings. A man is threatened with a knife during a fight. There are also fight scenes in which men and punched and kicked.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are references to children being kidnapped and forced into sex slavery.

additional issues

strong violence, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is sexual threat such as one man holding another against a wall as he pulls down his trouser zip and one huge inmate warns his new cellmate, "You give it up to Garvey without a fight".

additional issues

There is also discriminatory language such as a man being referred to as a 'fag' and mild bad language ('shit', 'dumbass', 'damn').

sexual violence references, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

additional issues

child sexual abuse references, sexual threat

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

additional issues

strong violence

Classified Date:

09/01/2023

Use:

VOD/Streaming

violence

There is strong violence, such as multiple bullet impacts and blood spurts when a soldier fires a machine gun at his erstwhile colleagues, and a spray of blood when a man is shot.

additional issues

Director(s)Hiroko Utsumi

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes23m

CastAsh Lynx, Okumura Eiji, Max Lobo

Classified date09/01/2023

LanguageJapanese