Hayao Miyazaki

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

You're right - I just re-read Sugar's post, and I wouldn't recommend Akira for a 5 year-old. But it's more psychologically violent than Mononoke, which has dismemberments in the first 10 minutes and all those awful bloody battle towards the end, so...

Actually it was my husband that let her watch the violent scenes before I did. They're pretty fleeting, and sometimes you don't even notice exactly what's going on in them because there's so much going on in the shot. But I had to laugh when she watched the scene where the guy's arms get cut off and I'm thinking "oh ****!" She starts to laugh and says, "Mommy, how's that guy gonna eat now?"