One Cut of the Dead: parents' guide

The opening film-within-a-film has bloody axe attacks, beheadings and limbs being cut off, with people later shown with bloody stumps. The effects are deliberately low budget. Later, a wife lashes out at the cast and her husband puts her in a chokehold.

An Australian festival listing warns of moderate language, which points to some s-word-level swearing in the subtitles, mostly in heated on-set arguments. The UK classifier did not list language, and no source we found gives a count.

A Japan Foundation festival advisory lists mild nudity and a mild verbal reference to sex, though no source describes either in detail. Nothing sexual happens on screen.

An alcoholic actor secretly drinks during the live shoot, gets drunk, passes out and later vomits mid-scene, and his relapse is played for laughs. A festival advisory also notes smoking. No drug use is reported.

The first section is a jittery zombie horror sequence with screaming, chases and a blood-painted symbol meant to raise the dead. Once the behind-the-scenes story starts, it becomes a comedy with no real scares.