Carved

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Movie: A Slit-Mouthed Woman / Carved
Japanese: Kuchisake-onna / 口裂け女
Director: Koji Shiraishi
Producer:
Writer: Koji Shiraishi, Naoyuki Yokota
Cinematography:
Release Date: March 17, 2007 (Japan)
Runtime: 90 Min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

A Slit-Mouthed Woman is a 2007 Japanese movie that is also known as "Carved". The film is a shocker about a mysterious woman with an unfortunate facial deformity who becomes the prime suspect in a series of kidnappings, whose underage victims meet horrific ends.

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Thirty years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been grotesquely disfigured by a jealous husband. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask, the spirit would approach young victims and, while removing her mask, ask “Am I pretty?” The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death. Now, one by one, children are disappearing again. As teachers and officials desperately begin to investigate, a panic begins to build as the woman’s spirit returns for some unfinished business and the town's dark secrets are exposed.

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We could tell you that the movie is based on an authentic piece of Japanese folk-lore, the ‘kuchisake-onna,’ about a woman disfigured by her jealous husband, and who then goes around asking strangers if they think she is beautiful. We could tell you that the film is helmed by Koji Shiraishi, director of “Noroi,” a film with the tagline “everybody died.” And we could add that the pic is being repped by producer turned first-time sales agent Twin Co. But who needs all that when you have a pic with a title as visual as “Snakes on a Plane” or “Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers”?