The Bare-Footed Kid (Chik geuk siu ji). Johnny To and Patrick Leung, 1993.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Shawscope: Volume Two Blu-ray box set, released 2022. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: A man takes a small bird from its cage, crushes it in his hand, and throws it to the ground, 19:00-19:05.
Deadly Weapons. Doris Wishman, 1974.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Twilight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 75 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Senso. Luchino Visconti, 1954.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #556, released 2011. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 123 minutes.
Summary: A 30-second scene in a marketplace (1:26:27-1:26:52) includes a line of suspended cow carcasses and butchers with cleavers. This is in the background and the actors appear to be pantomiming. No blood, gore or details. At the end of the scene a man enters with several dead game bird. 1:26:27-1:26:52.
Shawscope: Volume Two. Various directors, 1978-1993.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray box set, released 2021. Mandarin and Cantonese languages with English subtitle. Cumulative runtime of feature films approximately 1,286 minutes.
Summary: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Disciples of the 36th Chamber, Martial Arts of Shaolin, The Boxer’s Omen, and Mad Monkey Kung Fu contain violence to animals. See individual titles for details.
The Arrow set includes many documentaries, interviews and commentaries, and fourteen feature films:
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, 1978, Liu Chia-Liang
Return to the 36th Chamber, 1980, Liu Chia-Liang
Disciples of the 36th Chamber, 1985, Liu Chia-Liang
Mad Monkey Kung Fu, 1979, Liu Chia-Liang
Five Superfighters, 1979, Lo Mar
Invincible Shaolin, 1978, Chang Cheh
The Kid with the Golden Arm, 1979, Chang Cheh
The Magnificent Ruffians, 1980, Chang Cheh
Ten Tigers of Kwangtung, 1978, Chang Cheh
My Young Auntie, 1981, Liu Chia-Liang
Mercenaries from Hong Kong, 1982, Jing Wong
The Boxer’s Omen, 1983, Kuei Chih-Hung
Martial Arts of Shaolin, 1986, Liu Chia-Liang
The Bare-Footed Kid, 1993, Johnny To and Patrick Leung
Tenacious D in 'The Pick of Destiny'. Liam Lynch, 2006.
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Edition screened: New Line DVD, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live). Jean-Luc Godard, 1962.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #512, released 2010. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
A 1956 Gottlieb Sea Belles in the café at 8:20. A different unidentified table is first seen at 29:52 with a better view of the left side of the backglass at 35:35.
Zatoichi the Outlaw (Zatōichi rōyaburi). Satsuo Yamamoto, 1967.
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Edition screened: In Criterion Blu-ray box set #679 Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, released 2013. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: Killing of a moth.
Details: While showing off for a ganster, Zatoichi flicks a toothpick across the room and impales a large moth, 20:04–20:10. We see the skewered moth grounded and struggling
The sixteenth film in the Zatoichi series.
Too Much Too Often. Doris Wishman (as Louis Silverman), 1966.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 72 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Snowpiercer. Bong Joon-ho, 2013.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2015. English language and other languages with unreliable subtitles. Runtime approximately 126 minutes.
Summary: At 46:00, a large dead fish is slit with an axe as a motivating act before a melee.
The Pick-Up. Lee Frost, 1968.
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Edition screened: Something Weird DVD, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 02.5/5❤
A surprise bonus in The Pick-Up is psycho-folk singer Jim Sullivan singing and playing a complete song while seated on the sofa in a mobster’s pad. Crazy, man, crazy.
Martial Arts of Shaolin (Nan bei Shao Lin). Liu Chia-Liang, 1986.
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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: A living harmless snake is fastened to a thin tree branch by looping its neck around the branch and tying a knot with its body. It then is pulled taught, skinned alive, the body whacked from the head, hacked into pieces and cooked on a sizzling hot stone. Hokey Smokes. 16:52 - 17:26.
The film opens with an ethically irreconcilable scene in which two young Shaolin students save a nest of baby birds. They then get worms to feed the pre-fledglings and are interrupted by a senior monk who ruins Happy Baby Bird Time by asking if the birds’ lives are more important than the life of the worms?
Funky Forest: The First Contact (Naisu no mori). Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, & Shunichirô Miki, 2005.
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Edition screened: Third Window Blu-ray, released 2022. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 150 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. Several small malicious fantasy creatures are handled roughly.
The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. 1965-1969.
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Edition screened: AGFA, released 2022. English language. Combined runtime of feature films approximately 632 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Click on individual titles for additional information:
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Another Day, Another Man (1966)
My Brother’s Wife (1966)
The Hot Month of August (1966)
A Taste of Flesh (1967)
Indecent Desires (1968)
Too Much Too Often (1968)
Passion Fever (1969)
The Family Stone. Thomas Bezucha, 2005.
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Edition screened: 20th Century DVD, released 2006. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
No animals or references to animals in the film.
Dune: Part Two. Denis Villeneuve, 2024.
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Edition screened: Included in Warner Dune 2-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray set, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 166 minutes.
Summary: Birds are incinerated in a small cave and fall to the ground charred and dead starting at 1:49:34, with recurring images during other action through 1:50:47.
Dune. Denis Villeneuve, 2021.
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Edition screened: Included in Warner Dune 2-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray set, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 155 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.