Demon Slayer Movie Is R-Rated; Here’s Why!
Published on February 7, 2022
Demon Slayer movie's US release got marked R-rated, even after it practically slew all the other films on the Japanese box office. An "R" rating basically means that the movie is "restricted" for a certain type of audience, In case you don't know. So people that are sensitive or not old enough can avoid watching it. So R-rated mark maybe like a trigger warning of some sort.
Well, it’s not much of a surprise to us, though. We mean, have you seen the amount of violence and gore that’s in the film? There’s blood and killing everywhere in the series. Not to mention suicide and torture.
Which… makes it a little inappropriate for children. Hence, the US Motion Picture Association had decided to rate the movie as restricted and released it as an R-rated film. That means anyone below the age of 17 will be required to have parental guidance to watch the movie.
It basically means: get your momma to buy you a ticket. If she allows you to watch it, then you can. Otherwise, you need to wait till you’re 18, buddy.
The Japanese National Film Critiques, Eirin (The Film Classification and Rating Organization), rated the movie PG-12 (US equivalent of PG-13) so that anyone above the age of 12 can watch the film without parental consent. It has always been a difficult task to please the US audience. Of course, that’s not the case in Japan. The fact that the film made it this big in the US is an achievement in itself.
Let’s not forget that Australia restricted the movie to anyone below 15 years. And anyone below 16 years of age in Singapore is pretty much banned from watching it at all.
It is pretty interesting to us to see that the age restriction varies in different places. We find out about a country’s local audience and cultural myridity. It reveals how much horror and gore the audience in a particular country can handle. Japanese audience seems to have a slightly higher threshold for violence and gore.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train is a 117-minute film based on the anime and manga series Demon Slayer. The movie is animated by Ufotable studios and is credited to Koyoharu Gotōge.
The film revolves around our lead boy Kamado Tanjiro who went through the sick tragedy of losing his family to a demon attack. His only surviving sister got turned into a demon too and that's just sad.
Our boy decides to cure his sister and joins Demon Slayer Corps, an organization that works towards hunting demons. Because of a supposed demon in a train, Tanjiro and the team rendezvous with the Flame Hashira Rengoku Kyojuro to investigate.
What happens after that is something we’d rather not spoil. It’s better if you find out by watching it yourself. Let us know what you think about all that violence and blood. Comment down your thoughts! Is it fair that the film got an R-rating in the US?
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