Perfect Blue

Strong bloody violence includes a frenzied knife attack in which a man is stabbed in the eye and the crotch. A woman is beaten and strangled by a man. Punches are exchanged in a scene of hand to hand fighting.

Sequences of strong threat include characters fearing they are being watched and stalked. There are scenes of knife threat and chases which include a focus on a woman's distress.

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') as well as milder terms such as 'shit', 'asshole', 'bastard', 'screw', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'.

Men look at nude images of women in pornographic magazines. Verbal references are made to sex and there is some sexualised focus on the bodies of female characters, occasionally in states of undress.

A scene being filmed for a TV series involves a female strip club performer being attacked, stripped and forcibly held down by a group of men as another man rapes her in a sustained sequence of sexual violence. There are also scenes of sustained sexual threat in which a man attempts to rape a woman at knifepoint after beating her. Verbal references are made to a serial killer becoming sexually aroused by committing acts of violence.

Bloody dead bodies are seen in the aftermath of violent attacks, as well as corpses with their eyes gouged out. There is also sight of large blood spurts, blood splashes and crime scene detail.

There are sexualised pornographic images of a naked woman, featuring breast and pubic nudity; these are intercut with scenes of bloody violence in one sequence. There is also sight of a woman's partially naked, blood splashed dead body, which includes breast nudity, at a crime scene.

The deterioration of a woman's mental health and her attendant distress is a recurring theme of the film.

Characters smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol.

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.