• Director(s)

    Jacky Gan

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    30/12/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    110m

  • Cast

    Yang Xiao, Liya Tong, Yihong Duan

Film

Octopus with Broken Arms

strong violence, threat, injury detail, disturbing images

In this intense and unsettling Mandarin-language crime drama, the kidnapping of a billionaire businessman's young daughter leads to the revelation of horrifying secrets from the past.…

In this intense and unsettling Mandarin-language crime drama, the kidnapping of a billionaire businessman's young daughter leads to the revelation of horrifying secrets from the past.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

disturbing images

  • Director(s)

    Jacky Gan

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    30/12/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    110m

  • Cast

    Yang Xiao, Liya Tong, Yihong Duan

strong violence, threat, injury detail, disturbing images
Classified Date:
03/01/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
CMC Pictures
violence
Strong violence features shootings and heavy beatings, resulting in bloodshed, as well as stranglings and the use of lethal explosive devices.
threat and horror
Strong threat is directed at vulnerable children in various menacing situations. There is also threat from firearms and explosive devices.
language
Infrequent bad language includes uses of 'crap' and 'hell'.
drugs
There are infrequent drug references.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is an undetailed reference to child sexual abuse.
suicide and self-harm
There are brief images and verbal references to the aftermath of an apparent suicide.
injury detail
Strong injury detail includes a still image of a bloody hand from which a finger has been severed, and gruesome injuries to parts of corpses inside bodybags.
disturbing images
The bodies of suffocated children are discovered in a vehicle. A young boy without legs begs on the street whist propelling himself on a makeshift trolley.
theme
Moderate upsetting scenes feature a distressed young girl in footage filmed by her kidnappers and sent to her father as part of a ransom demand, as well as the ordeals faced by child victims of human trafficking.

  • Classified date

    03/01/2025

  • Language

    Mandarin