• Director(s)

    Gakuryu Ishii

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/09/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    121m

  • Cast

    Masatoshi Nagase, Tadanobu Asano, Kôichi Satô

Film

The Box Man

strong sex

In this dark and surreal Japanese drama, a photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.…

In this dark and surreal Japanese drama, a photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

nudity

  • Director(s)

    Gakuryu Ishii

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/09/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    121m

  • Cast

    Masatoshi Nagase, Tadanobu Asano, Kôichi Satô

strong sex
Classified Date:
27/08/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
cogitoworks Ltd
violence
Moderate violence includes heavy punches, a strangulation sequence, and scenes of gunfire infrequently resulting in bloody aftermath detail.
language
Bad language includes ‘son of a bitch’, ‘shit’ and ‘screw you’.
sex
There are scenes of, and references to, sexual fetish activity including voyeurism. In one scene a naked woman administers an enema to a man in a sexual context, although the actual process detail is concealed from view.
drugs
The film contains undetailed verbal references to drug misuse and addiction, which are not condoned.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female character is sexually exploited by her male employers. Several scenes show her stripping naked at their command, implying further non-consensual sexual activity off-screen. The film also contains scenes involving non-consensual voyeurism.
suicide and self-harm
There are undetailed verbal references to suicide.
injury detail
We see moderate splashes of blood on a wall and on the ground in the aftermath of a shooting. An injection is administered in close up during a scene set in a medical clinic.
nudity
The film features scenes of sexualised female breast and rear nudity, as well as non-sexualised male real nudity.

  • Classified date

    27/08/2024

  • Language

    Japanese