Carved 2: The Scissors Massacre
| Carved 2: The Scissors Massacre | |
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| Directed by | Kotaro Terauchi |
| Produced by | Takafumi Ohashi |
| Written by | Kotaro Terauchi Yoshitsugu Sagami Carolco (as Karoruko) |
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Rin Asuka Yukie Kawamura Mayuko Iwasa |
| Music by | Satō Taka |
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Jolly Roger
Earl Grey Film Kadokawa Picture Gold TC Entertainment Tornado Film |
| Distributed by | JollyRoger Innoform Media |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Carved 2: The Scissors Massacre (口裂け女2, Kuchisake-onna 2) is a 2008 Japanese horror film. It's the prequel to the movie Carved. It was released on March 22, 2008, and was directed by Kotaro Terauchi. It is based on a legend and some actual events that occurred in Japan. It deals with the origins of the Slit-Mouthed Woman.
Sixteen-year-old actress Rin Asuka takes the lead as high school girl Mayumi, whose face is disfigured by an attack with sulfuric acid. As more unfortunate events occur, it eventually leads her to becoming a supernatural mass murderer.
The setting is Japan in 1978. Mayumi Sawada lives a good life in a small town in Gifu. Her family runs a successful farming business. Her older sister Sachiko is about to be married, and her other sister Yukie does great business at the hair salon. Mayumi also becomes friends with her crush, Seiji Moriyama. A few days before he leaves for college in Tokyo, Seiji takes Mayumi to a pretty area with a view of the whole town, where he gives Mayumi a button from his gakuran jacket, telling her that he wants her to have it. This makes Mayumi happy.
However, that happiness soon ends. One night, when Sachiko and Yukie go to Tokyo, Mayumi decides to sleep in Sachiko's room. Sachiko's ex-boyfriend breaks into the Sawada house, enters Sachiko's room and, thinking that it's Sachiko in bed, pours sulfuric acid on Mayumi's face. He then kills her mother, stabbing her in the mouth, before being shot in the head by Mr. Sawada. Mayumi is rushed to the hospital, and the doctors are able to save her, though since the acid penetrated most of her bone, any further surgery would put Mayumi's life in danger.
Mayumi's two best friends, Junko and Kaoru try to visit her the next day, but Mayumi doesn't want to see anyone. Mayumi receives a phone call from Seiji, who asks if he can come see her. Mayumi declines, not wanting him to see her face. They agree to write letters to each other after he leaves. Upon her return to school, other students spread rumors about her and call her a "mutant girl" since she covers her face with a surgical mask. One day, Mayumi notices a woman in a red coat standing outside her house, who disappears. Things become worse when her father commits suicide as a way of saving the family's debts with his life insurance. Due to the rumors surrounding Mayumi, Kaoru and Junko begin to distance themselves from Mayumi. In Tokyo, Seiji now has a girlfriend, and has stopped writing to Mayumi. Mayumi continuously sees the woman in the red coat, which frightens her.
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