Jujutsu Kaisen 0 poster

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)

Film · 1h 45m · Rated PG-13 · In Japanese

Action, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English)

A nervous student battles a powerful curse while learning to fight at a school for exorcists.

Suspenseful and darkly comic. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is heavy.

Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu and Crunchyroll.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 parents guide

Brutal violence and graphic gore, which is more than most PG-13 titles carry. Beyond that, no sex or nudity and mild language.

Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG-13 suggests, because of the gore and violence.

Scare
Mildly scary
A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares
Several
More than a couple of sudden jolts.
Gore
Graphic gore
Blood and wounds shown clearly.
Violence
Brutal violence
Our top level for violence.
Sex and nudity
None noted
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is Jujutsu Kaisen 0 scary?
Only a little. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is Jujutsu Kaisen 0?
Graphic gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
What is Jujutsu Kaisen 0 rated, and is it OK for kids?
Better for teens than younger kids: it is rated PG-13, with brutal violence, several jump scares and graphic gore.

What is Jujutsu Kaisen 0 about?

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.

Cast and crew

Directed bySunghoo Park
StarringMegumi Ogata, Kana Hanazawa, Yuichi Nakamura, Takahiro Sakurai, Mikako Komatsu, Koki Uchiyama

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