Ip Man: The Awakening

sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Director(s)Li Xi Jie, Zhang Zhu Lin
Production year2021
Release date05/05/2023
Genre(s)Action
Approx. running minutes80m
CastMiao Xie, Guanying Chen, Qilong Hua, Hao Yan Fei, Zhao Yu Xuan, Sergio De Ieso, Xijie Li, Zhelin Zhang, Liu Bayin, Lan Fang, Dan Wang

Ip Man: The Awakening

sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Ruthless people traffickers are hunted down by a vigilante in this fast-paced, impactful Mandarin language Chinese actio ...
Ruthless people traffickers are hunted down by a vigilante in this fast-paced, impactful Mandarin language Chinese action film, which features unsettling sexual threat and stylised martial arts fight scenes.
violence
threat and horror
discrimination
sexual violence and sexual threat
language
sex
drugs
suicide and self-harm
sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Classified Date:
17/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
violence
Scenes include frequent stylised fights, stabbings, throat slashings, shootings and beatings often resulting in blood spurts and injury detail visible in the aftermath. In a disturbing torture sequence, a badly beaten man and woman are hanged by their necks from ropes with their feet on moving barrels. A villain subsequently puts a cigar out on the man's chest.
threat and horror
A villainous gang terrorises a man and his family after he tries to disrupt a kidnapping. They aggressively search a hospital for him. A man is dangled from a tall height and his wife and children are threatened with violence.
discrimination
An unsympathetic European character refers to Chinese people as "yellow faces".
sexual violence and sexual threat
Terrified young women are abducted in order to be sold into human trafficking. They are chained up, forced into vans, humiliated and referred to as 'piglets'. Some are killed during their abductions. Men stalk a teenage girl and she is subsequently abducted, locked in a cage, repeatedly showered with water and later hanged by her neck.
additional issues
A racist man calls Chinese people 'yellow faces'. A boyfriend pushes his girlfriend up against a car intending to have sex with her.
sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Classified Date:
13/03/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
violence
Scenes include frequent stylised fights, stabbings, throat slashings, shootings and beatings often resulting in blood spurts and injury detail visible in the aftermath. In a disturbing torture sequence, a badly beaten man and woman are hanged by their necks from ropes with their feet on moving barrels. A villain subsequently puts a cigar out on the man's chest.
threat and horror
A villainous gang terrorises a man and his family after he tries to disrupt a kidnapping. They aggressively search a hospital for him. A man is dangled from a tall height and his wife and children are threatened with violence.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Terrified young women are abducted in order to be sold into human trafficking. They are chained up, forced into vans, humiliated and referred to as 'piglets'. Some are killed during their abductions. Men stalk a teenage girl and she is subsequently abducted, locked in a cage, repeatedly showered with water and later hanged by her neck.
additional issues
A racist man calls Chinese people 'yellow faces'. A boyfriend pushes his girlfriend up against a car intending to have sex with her.
Classified Date:
06/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
Classified date17/04/2023
LanguageChinese
violence
threat and horror
discrimination
sexual violence and sexual threat
language
sex
drugs
suicide and self-harm
Director(s)Li Xi Jie, Zhang Zhu Lin
Production year2021
Release date05/05/2023
Genre(s)Action
Approx. running minutes80m
CastMiao Xie, Guanying Chen, Qilong Hua, Hao Yan Fei, Zhao Yu Xuan, Sergio De Ieso, Xijie Li, Zhelin Zhang, Liu Bayin, Lan Fang, Dan Wang
sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Classified Date:
17/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
violence
Scenes include frequent stylised fights, stabbings, throat slashings, shootings and beatings often resulting in blood spurts and injury detail visible in the aftermath. In a disturbing torture sequence, a badly beaten man and woman are hanged by their necks from ropes with their feet on moving barrels. A villain subsequently puts a cigar out on the man's chest.
threat and horror
A villainous gang terrorises a man and his family after he tries to disrupt a kidnapping. They aggressively search a hospital for him. A man is dangled from a tall height and his wife and children are threatened with violence.
discrimination
An unsympathetic European character refers to Chinese people as "yellow faces".
sexual violence and sexual threat
Terrified young women are abducted in order to be sold into human trafficking. They are chained up, forced into vans, humiliated and referred to as 'piglets'. Some are killed during their abductions. Men stalk a teenage girl and she is subsequently abducted, locked in a cage, repeatedly showered with water and later hanged by her neck.
additional issues
A racist man calls Chinese people 'yellow faces'. A boyfriend pushes his girlfriend up against a car intending to have sex with her.
sexual threat, strong threat, violence
Classified Date:
13/03/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
violence
Scenes include frequent stylised fights, stabbings, throat slashings, shootings and beatings often resulting in blood spurts and injury detail visible in the aftermath. In a disturbing torture sequence, a badly beaten man and woman are hanged by their necks from ropes with their feet on moving barrels. A villain subsequently puts a cigar out on the man's chest.
threat and horror
A villainous gang terrorises a man and his family after he tries to disrupt a kidnapping. They aggressively search a hospital for him. A man is dangled from a tall height and his wife and children are threatened with violence.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Terrified young women are abducted in order to be sold into human trafficking. They are chained up, forced into vans, humiliated and referred to as 'piglets'. Some are killed during their abductions. Men stalk a teenage girl and she is subsequently abducted, locked in a cage, repeatedly showered with water and later hanged by her neck.
additional issues
A racist man calls Chinese people 'yellow faces'. A boyfriend pushes his girlfriend up against a car intending to have sex with her.
Classified Date:
06/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
Classified date17/04/2023
LanguageChinese