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In reply to the discussion: Video games with guns are a problem, [View all]Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)24. And South Korea has some incredibly violent films that get heavily cut for here
And Japan does as well.
In a lot of ways, out violence is "tame" because it's played more to the action/comedy side of it where there are no stakes to it, and there's almost a cartoonishness about it.
Just seeing the differences in remakes of movies from there to here and how toned down they are is fascinating.
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Japan has all those same video games, plus have had a far longer history of violent porn
mythology
Mar 2018
#21
And South Korea has some incredibly violent films that get heavily cut for here
Blue_Adept
Mar 2018
#24
lol, you should keep a Desert Eagle around and let them break their wrist with it..
EX500rider
Mar 2018
#46