Detective Chinatown 1900 (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Chen Sicheng. Mandarin/English-language Comedy/Mystery. In 1900s San Francisco, an inexperienced detective (Liu Haoran) and his sidekick (Wang Baoqiang) investigate a suspicious death involving the daughter of an American politician (John Cusack).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - little detail
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, once in a suicide context - some blood and gory detail; infrequent portrayals of dismembered limbs - little blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Uncovering the truth
• Teamwork
• The immigrant experience

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence and some coarse language

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