Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman

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: The Slit-Mouthed Woman 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: The Slit-Mouthed Woman was released in 2007 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 90 minutes.