• Director(s)

    Kinji Fukasaku

  • Production Year

    1971

  • Genre(s)

    Action

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase

Film

Sympathy for the Underdog

strong violence, injury detail, language, nudity

SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is a Japanese action film, from 1971, in which a man is released from prison and sets out to rebuild his old organisation.…

SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is a Japanese action film, from 1971, in which a man is released from prison and sets out to rebuild his old organisation.

violence
Frequent scenes of strong violence include shootings, stabbings and fist fights with blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail. A woman is aggressively slapped around the face by a man.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('whore') and milder terms such as 'bastard', 'shit', 'asshole', 'crap' and 'damn'.
injury detail
Violence is often accompanied by strong bloody injury detail. People are seen lying dead on the ground with bloody bullet wounds covering their bodies.
nudity
A woman vigorously dances topless in a nightclub.
additional issues
An unpleasant man displays racist behaviour towards a group of Japanese men calling them 'dirty Japs', but discriminatory attitudes are not endorsed by the film. Scenes take place in a brothel where sex workers are present and there is a sequence of moderate sex. Moments of moderate threat include gun and knife threat.

  • Director(s)

    Kinji Fukasaku

  • Production Year

    1971

  • Genre(s)

    Action

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase

strong violence, injury detail, language, nudity
Classified Date:
26/03/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Radiance Films
violence
Frequent scenes of strong violence include shootings, stabbings and fist fights with blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail. A woman is aggressively slapped around the face by a man.
language
Use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('whore') and milder terms such as 'bastard', 'shit', 'asshole', 'crap' and 'damn'.
injury detail
Violence is often accompanied by strong bloody injury detail. People are seen lying dead on the ground with bloody bullet wounds covering their bodies.
nudity
A woman vigorously dances topless in a nightclub.
additional issues
An unpleasant man displays racist behaviour towards a group of Japanese men calling them 'dirty Japs', but discriminatory attitudes are not endorsed by the film. Scenes take place in a brothel where sex workers are present and there is a sequence of moderate sex. Moments of moderate threat include gun and knife threat.

  • Classified date

    26/03/2024

  • Language

    Japanese