Carved

A rainy autumn suburb, a child’s coat flapping empty on a swing. The silhouette of a woman in a tattered coat steps from mist, scissors glinting. A voice asks, thin and too close: Always the same question. Then only the sound of shears snapping shut. Nagisa Oshima, J-horror revival, leans in too far.

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Koji Shiraishi directed Carved in 2007. See Koji Shiraishi's full filmography, where to start with Koji Shiraishi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Koji Shiraishi.

Carved was released in 2007 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 90 minutes.