The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong stylized bloody violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man caresses a boy's chest, begins opening his kimono, and says, "From now on you will be my boy. If you do as I say, you and your sister are welcome to stay here."
  • A boy approaches a man and asks, "Don't you want to spend time with me?" The man leads him away into a building and the boy returns with money.
  • A man pushes a woman to the ground, lifts her skirt and says, "Show me what you have."

Violence & Gore

  • Allowed for all in France and Italy. Maybe 12 in France, it could say wrong in movie age rating section. Rated 13 in Spain. Me who has written this agree with their desicions anyway, this movie is not in need of a higher rating than 12 or 13. I think most 10 year olds can handle it.
  • THE BLOOD IN THIS FILM IS INTENTIONALLY VERY FAKE LOOKING
  • Men stealthily enter a room and stab many sleeping people to death (we see the dead bodies covered with blood and see blood spurt with every stab and slash). Then others in the house are stabbed and slashed to death. The two children, that were hiding under the house during the massacre, come out and look at their dead family.
  • An elderly man faces many men with swords, they charge him and he slashes them and stabs them (we hear squishing and see blood spurting and spraying with every slash), and we see bodies with puddles of blood around them on the ground.
  • A man cuts a man's hand off (we see the severed hand land on a table and blood spurts and sprays). The man slashes two other men across the chest and stomach (blood spurts with every slash). Other men come in after him and are slashed, and a woman punches a man in the face.
  • An elderly man is attacked by two men, he slashes them both with his sword (blood sprays). Two more men attack him. He slashes them both (blood spurts and sprays), and another man is slashed across the chest and across the back. He falls against a wall and slips down to the ground.
  • A man slashes a man across the eyes (blood sprays and we see the man with a bloody hand over his eyes).
  • An elderly man fights many with swords. Blood sprays and spurts. Two men are stabbed into a tree. One tries to stab the man through a door; he is slashed (blood sprays on the rice paper). One man is cut from the crotch to the waist. One man grabs a gun and he is slashed. One is stabbed in the hand (blood sprays and spurts).
  • An elderly man and another man face off on a beach. They draw swords. They are both slashed, and one is killed.
  • A man fights many men with swords. Blood sprays all around. One man is slashed across the chest (blood sprays), and one more is slashed from head to toe (blood sprays).
  • Two men shove a boy and yell at him. A man kicks a man in the leg (we hear a crack sounding like it breaks) and slashes him across the throat with a sword. Another man is slashed, and a third man charges the man, who stabs him through the abdomen (blood spurts and sprays and we hear squishy sounds with every slash).
  • A woman wraps a shamisen string around a man's throat (he gags) and another woman stabs him with her sword (blood spurts).
  • A man slashes another man on the arm, slashes two other men (they lie dead on the ground) and stabs one through the stomach (we see blood spurt).
  • A man is slashed across the stomach (blood spurts), one is stabbed in the stomach (blood spurts), one has his hand cut off. He runs and a man throws a sword into his back.
  • A woman stabs herself in the abdomen; committing suicide (blood pools on the floor around her).
  • Men fight with a man; punching and kicking him repeatedly.
  • A man hits three men with a sword in its sheath and then breaks one man's neck.
  • Two men fight with wooden swords: One hits the other hard on the back of the head several times. Another man comes and he is hit hard in the stomach twice. Another man comes and he is knocked to the ground and hit several times on the back.
  • Five men with swords approach a house. A man in the house is knocked down, the house is set on fire and the man and a woman, who are also inside, run for safety.
  • A man approaches an elderly man intent on killing him, and the elderly man draws his sword; cutting the man's sword at the handle.
  • Men threaten a man for protection money. Another man draws his sword and breaks a sake bottle with it as a warning.
  • A man punches a man and throws him through a door. Then others kick him repeatedly while he is on the ground.
  • A woman hits a dish of food out of a girl's hand and yells at her.
  • A man draws a sword, spins it around and stabs it into a man's sandal, between his toes (there's no injury).
  • Two men talk about testing a sword by killing a beggar.
  • A man with a spear and wearing a chest plate charges around a house and through woods yelling in several scenes. In one scene a man throws a log that hits the man on the head knocking him to the ground briefly (we see blood on his head and face).
  • Three men hit a man on the head with logs repeatedly (this is played as a gag).
  • Men have elaborate tattoos all over their chests and backs. A man has a tattoo of a head with a dagger in it.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is another flashback scene, in which a man is rubbing Osei's (as a child) chest in a sexual manner and suggesting that he will give he and his sister food and lodging for allowing him to molest him.
  • His sister is treated like a Cinderella-type character by the people they are staying with. It's hard to watch children treated in such a manner.

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Violence & Gore

  • Two women (one is a man dressed like a woman) fight many men with swords, and they are thrown through a wall.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The flashback scene, in which Osei, as a child, offers his body to a man, so that his sister can eat, is heart-wrenching and disturbing. Nothing is shown, except for him walking off with the man and then bringing his sister back the coins later.

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