• Director(s)

    Kunihiko Ikuhara

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    142m

Film

Re:cycle Of The Penguindrum

child abuse references

Twin brothers continue on a time-travelling quest in exchange for their sister’s life. This surreal and fantastical Japanese anime sequel contains brief scenes involving child abuse, although the detail is not graphic.…

Twin brothers continue on a time-travelling quest in exchange for their sister’s life. This surreal and fantastical Japanese anime sequel contains brief scenes involving child abuse, although the detail is not graphic.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

theme

discrimination

  • Director(s)

    Kunihiko Ikuhara

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    142m

child abuse references
Classified Date:
11/05/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Anime Ltd
violence
An off-screen stabbing creates a small splatter of blood. A man sets off a series of explosions across a city, resulting in brief bloody aftermath detail. A young girl is shown with bandages on her limbs and face, implied to be the result of off-screen domestic violence at the hands of her father.
threat and horror
There are occasional scenes of moderate threat. For example, a villain kidnaps a girl and threatens to drop her down a lift shaft while her brother scrambles to save her. In another scene, a terrorist plants gas bombs in the shape of robot bears in a train carriage, but the release of the gas and the resulting deaths and injuries occur off screen.
language
There is infrequent mild bad language (e.g. ‘crap’, ‘bastard’).
sex
Mischievous penguin spirits are repeatedly shown looking at magazines containing sexualised images of scantily-clad women; breast nudity is implied, but there is no explicit visual detail. In a surreal scene, a teenager is embraced by a magical spirit inhabiting the nude form of his sister, although here the visual detail is limited to fleeting rear nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
We see undetailed glimpses of a young girl’s bare body as her artist father, who is implied to be abusive, creates a nude sculpture in her image.
injury detail
Blood pools around an injured man’s body after an off-screen shooting. We briefly see dark patches of blood on the ground after several people are killed by an exploding bomb, and another scene features images of a moderately bloody arm hanging out of a car in the aftermath of an off-screen crash.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes related to child abandonment, neglect and homelessness.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
sexual violence, strong sex references
Classified Date:
09/05/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Anime Ltd
violence
Two people are killed by explosive devices attached to their foreheads, depicted via stylised images of black plumes of blood or smoke pouring from their heads against a red background.
threat and horror
There are occasional scenes of moderate threat and horror.
language
Bad language includes ‘wench’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘crap’ and ‘damn’.
sex
Several scenes imply that a teenage boy harbours incestuous feelings for his sister. and after the sister becomes possessed by a spirit we see him clutch her nude body in an ostensibly romantic embrace, with visible rear nudity. There are also non-graphic comic references to BDSM and pornography, as well as moderate visual focus on the bodies of female characters in revealing clothing.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Having drugged a man with a disorienting love potion, a 16-year-old girl strips them both - without strong visual detail - and straddles him in bed, intending to rape him; however, she is prevented from doing so by the intervention of another person. We see brief images of a boy wearing a ball gag and being threatened with a blade after he is kidnapped by a sinister female villain. In another scene, a man under the influence of a love potion attempts to break through a door to a girl sheltering on the other side. A teenager is briefly shown kissing his unconscious sister on the mouth.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes, including ones that deal with the theme of bereavement.
child abuse references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Anime Ltd
violence
An off-screen stabbing creates a small splatter of blood. A man sets off a series of explosions across a city, resulting in brief bloody aftermath detail. A young girl is shown with bandages on her limbs and face, implied to be the result of off-screen domestic violence at the hands of her father.
threat and horror
There are occasional scenes of moderate threat. For example, a villain kidnaps a girl and threatens to drop her down a lift shaft while her brother scrambles to save her. In another scene, a terrorist plants gas bombs in the shape of robot bears in a train carriage, but the release of the gas and the resulting deaths and injuries occur off screen.
language
There is infrequent mild bad language (e.g. ‘crap’, ‘bastard’).
sex
Mischievous penguin spirits are repeatedly shown looking at magazines containing sexualised images of scantily-clad women; breast nudity is implied, but there is no explicit visual detail. In a surreal scene, a teenager is embraced by a magical spirit inhabiting the nude form of his sister, although here the visual detail is limited to fleeting rear nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
We see undetailed glimpses of a young girl’s bare body as her artist father, who is implied to be abusive, creates a nude sculpture in her image.
injury detail
Blood pools around an injured man’s body after an off-screen shooting. We briefly see dark patches of blood on the ground after several people are killed by an exploding bomb, and another scene features images of a moderately bloody arm hanging out of a car in the aftermath of an off-screen crash.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes related to child abandonment, neglect and homelessness.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
sexual violence, strong sex references
Classified Date:
15/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Anime Ltd
violence
Two people are killed by explosive devices attached to their foreheads, depicted via stylised images of black plumes of blood or smoke pouring from their heads against a red background.
threat and horror
There are occasional scenes of moderate threat and horror.
language
Bad language includes ‘wench’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘crap’ and ‘damn’.
sex
Several scenes imply that a teenage boy harbours incestuous feelings for his sister. and after the sister becomes possessed by a spirit we see him clutch her nude body in an ostensibly romantic embrace, with visible rear nudity. There are also non-graphic comic references to BDSM and pornography, as well as moderate visual focus on the bodies of female characters in revealing clothing.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Having drugged a man with a disorienting love potion, a 16-year-old girl strips them both - without strong visual detail - and straddles him in bed, intending to rape him; however, she is prevented from doing so by the intervention of another person. We see brief images of a boy wearing a ball gag and being threatened with a blade after he is kidnapped by a sinister female villain. In another scene, a man under the influence of a love potion attempts to break through a door to a girl sheltering on the other side. A teenager is briefly shown kissing his unconscious sister on the mouth.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes, including ones that deal with the theme of bereavement.

  • Classified date

    15/11/2023

  • Language

    Japanese