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Embalming

4.9 average rating
4.9
Japanese / 96 MIN. / 1999

The Genres

The Synopsis

Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.

The Cast

Reiko TakashimaYutaka MatsushigeSeijun SuzukiToshio ShibaKōjirō HongōHitomi MiwaMasatoshi Matsuo

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