Perfect Blue: parents' guide

Sexual violence: the heroine's character is held down and gang-raped in a scene shot for a TV drama, and a stalker later beats her and tries to rape her at knifepoint until she fights back with a hammer. Murders involve frenzied stabbings and gouged-out eyes.

Infrequent but strong: Common Sense lists 'f--k,' 'f---ing,' 's--t,' 'goddamn,' 'a--hole,' 'bastard' and 'slut,' and the BBFC also notes infrequent f-words along with milder words like 'damn' and 'hell.'

A photo shoot grows steadily more revealing until the heroine is shown with bare breasts and pubic hair, and the nude photos are later intercut with bloody violence. A murder victim's body is partly nude, and a dancer performs suggestively at a strip club.

Adults occasionally drink and smoke, mostly in the background of scenes. No drug use is noted.

Sustained psychological terror: a stalker watches the heroine, a ghostly double of her former self taunts her, and dream and reality blur until she cannot trust her own memory. Bloodied murder victims are shown, and the climax is a violent chase.