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Embalming (1999)

Directed by Shinji Aoyama

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Overview

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.

Length 96 minutes

Actors

Reiko Takashima | Yutaka Matsushige | Seijun Suzuki | Toshio Shiba | Kojiro Hongo | Hitomi Miwa | Masatoshi Matsuo