► A woman fights several armed men in a market with kicks, punches, and a gun a man falls dead from a roof, the woman punches three men and kicks two of them to the ground, shoots three other men dead as people run and scream and blood flows, she and five men jump over counters and kick and punch each another, and she pushes a man’s face into a hot grill and he falls off-screen, screaming she breaks a wine bottle in another man’s face and pushes him from a second floor window into a sparking power line, men chase her across rooftops, shooting and missing, she shoots a man in the face (blood flows) and shoots two men below her dead as she wedges herself between two walls, and she runs into a bathhouse (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and a man enters with a handgun, the woman aims her gun at him, says “Boo” and he faints as the bathing men laugh. A man takes a teen girl to a high-rise building and argues with his partner while a woman enters the lobby with dozens of armed men who shoot and kill several guards (several men fall dead, some fall off a staircase and glass walls shatter loudly as men shout), a man corners the woman with his handgun and he falls dead, killed from behind and a man holds a handgun to the head of a teen girl. ► A woman enters a house to find a man with a sling on his arm kneeling at an altar, they argue and the man shows her some information, the man turns his back, the woman aims a handgun at his head, and the camera cuts away as we hear a gunshot (the man was not shot). ► A woman pushes a man through a rice paper door and shoots a second man in the forehead (with blood spurting onto walls), she argues with other men and shoots two in the head (with blood gushing on the floor and walls as they die), she shoots a man who admits he ordered her killed, and his blood splashes onto the camera lens from his head while five more men enter with knives and drop them at the sight of the woman’s gun the woman’s gun clicks empty and the men pick up their knives and attack, they stab and kill a man already in the room, toss the woman through paper walls three times, and she gets up each time to stab the men in the throat, neck, chest and stomach (we see blood gush), and more men rush in and one throws her onto a coffee table that shatters, she grabs a knife and stabs several of the men (more blood gushes) and stabs the last one up through the throat and out the eye (all the men die). A flashback shows a teen girl firing a handgun at close range at an older man at a banquet, and her gun is empty he takes the gun, many other men laugh, and she grabs a steak knife and stabs him repeatedly in the chest and stomach at an angle where we cannot see the wounds a little blood splatters onto her face. – Two flashback sequences include a man recruiting a young girl to become an assassin, the girl practicing shooting a paper target and into the camera at increasing ages, and blood splattered over the girl’s face from the age of a young child to her early 20s. Also with Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi and Kazuya Tanabe. While seeking answers and revenge, she also becomes the protector of another orphan (Miku Martineau).

When she asks to retire, her handler assigns her one last target, a Japanese crime boss, but she soon realizes she has been poisoned and has only 24 hours to live. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.Ī 24-year-old assassin (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is an orphan recruited into a Japanese assassination society at a young age by a handler (Woody Harrelson).

Why is “Kate” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong bloody violence and language throughout.” The evaluation includes a sex scene and some partial nudity, many scenes of battles between a woman and many armed men with people dying from gunshots, and stabbings, a few scenes include people being injured and killed by explosions, we see the worsening condition of a woman after being poisoned, an injury in a car crash, a child being trained in assassination techniques, and over 30 F-words and other strong language.

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