• Director(s)

    Hiroyasu Ishida

  • Production Year

    2020

  • Genre(s)

    Animation, Drama, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    119m

Film

Penguin Highway

mild sex references, violence, language

PENGUIN HIGHWAY is a Japanese anime fantasy drama in which a boy investigates the mysterious appearance of penguins in his suburban town.…

PENGUIN HIGHWAY is a Japanese anime fantasy drama in which a boy investigates the mysterious appearance of penguins in his suburban town.

violence
A girl slaps a boy's face. A dimwitted bully is shown shoving and wrestling smaller children, and boys are shown inflicting pain by grabbing each other’s crotches in a non-sexual manner. In another scene the bully tears up a boy’s notes and urinates on them. The bullying scenes are brief and comic, and the victims do not appear injured or upset.
language
There is infrequent use of mild bad language (‘crap’).
sex
A young boy is fascinated by breasts and is sometimes caught staring at women’s chests, resulting in occasional close-up images of women’s clothed chests and comic references to ‘boobs’.
additional issues
Very mild upsetting scenes include one in which a boy dreams about seeing dead marine animals on a beach and then watching his friend fade away into a skeleton; the sequence is brief and there is very little visual detail. We briefly see monsters that look like sea lions hunting and swallowing penguins, all without detail. There is brief comic rear nudity after bullies pull down a boy’s swimming trunks, and in another scene a boy accuses a man of being a ‘dirty old man’.

  • Director(s)

    Hiroyasu Ishida

  • Production Year

    2020

  • Genre(s)

    Animation, Drama, Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    119m

mild sex references, violence, language
Classified Date:
27/05/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Anime Ltd
violence
A girl slaps a boy's face. A dimwitted bully is shown shoving and wrestling smaller children, and boys are shown inflicting pain by grabbing each other’s crotches in a non-sexual manner. In another scene the bully tears up a boy’s notes and urinates on them. The bullying scenes are brief and comic, and the victims do not appear injured or upset.
language
There is infrequent use of mild bad language (‘crap’).
sex
A young boy is fascinated by breasts and is sometimes caught staring at women’s chests, resulting in occasional close-up images of women’s clothed chests and comic references to ‘boobs’.
additional issues
Very mild upsetting scenes include one in which a boy dreams about seeing dead marine animals on a beach and then watching his friend fade away into a skeleton; the sequence is brief and there is very little visual detail. We briefly see monsters that look like sea lions hunting and swallowing penguins, all without detail. There is brief comic rear nudity after bullies pull down a boy’s swimming trunks, and in another scene a boy accuses a man of being a ‘dirty old man’.

  • Classified date

    27/05/2020

  • Language

    English