Parents guide

The rear ends of two characters are seen briefly as they are splashed with water.

A character checks out women's legs and thighs multiple times as a peeping tom.

Scantily clad pin up girls can be clearly seen on a plane wall.

Man tells another man who is shirtless "I hope you're not that fast in the sack."

Extreme, graphic violence throughout. This film is surprisingly very violent for a PG-13 rating, and the violence is highly realistic and very disturbing, though this is intentional since the film is meant to show us the true horrors of war.

PG-13 violence type: blood, brutal and graphic.

Brutal violence.

POWs stand at attention for many hours; one POW stands at attention and another kneels on a board in place for hours, both slouching in pain. In several scenes, POWs without coats are forced to stand or exercise outside in the winter in snow and ice. There are several scenes of POWs helping each other to walk and we see one man hobbling alone on a crutch. A man has bloody fingernails and he says that he was tortured with pins under the nails, but gave up no information.

Over the Pacific Ocean, American warplanes fill the sky as Japanese Zeros attack with rapid machine gun fire; tail gunners and turret gunners fire back with large machine guns and down two enemy planes in fire and smoke and we hear one plane hit the water.

A police officer chases a teen boy, who runs into several young men that beat him and call him "dego"; we see the boy's face reddened by the others' fists and the policeman grabs the boy as he rises from the ground where he has fallen and takes him home. A boy's father whips him with a belt as the boy bends over the dining room table for drinking alcohol; we see the young man from the waist up, see the end of the belt fly and hear three sharp cracks, but see no blood or wounds. During a church service, a father slaps his son on the back of the head a few times to make him pay attention to the sermon.

A US plane returning to base breaks a landing wheel and suffers a flat tire, crippling the landing and causing sparks and screeching noises; the plane skids sideways and stops at a short rock wall that it breaks apart (the aviators appear shaken).

Soldier curse at main guy.

A middle school or early high school teen takes a puff each time from a cigarette as he drinks alcohol from a pint milk bottle behind a building in one scene and under bleachers in another scene, an aviator in a warplane says that after a mission "drinks are on me," a man sits with a glass of beer in a restaurant (he does not drink from it), and a short glass of unidentified liquid sits beside a man on a porch (he does not drink from it). A man smokes two small cigars in an airplane cockpit, soldiers smoke a few cigarettes outdoors, a jeep driver smokes a cigarette as he drives, and POWs smoke many.

Three men are on lifeboats at sea, with sharks in the water. While fixing damage done to one of the boats, a shark suddenly attacks.

Animals are killed for food while the main characters are at sea. The timing, sounds, images, and desperation over the vulnerability of the animals add to the intensity of the scene. Vegans and other animal lovers might want to look away or excuse theirselves from these scenes.

This movie is a nobody to somebody story with dark/mature themes and war, and there is one scene where the main character gets punched in the face numerous times as a consequence.

Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear themes.

Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.

Usually the Japanese guards torturing the American soldiers is most frightening.

The treatment of the prisoners is definitely diabolical to watch.

This film is pretty brash in general.

Very emotional, depressing,violent, and hard to watch.

The scene where a Japanese guard brutally beats/torments a main character may upset some viewers.