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Embalming(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-07-30
47%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide. While performing the embalming process, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh where it does not belong. When the head is stolen from the body during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
Movie: Embalming
Top 7 Billed Cast
高島礼子
Murakami Miyako
松重豊
鈴木清順
柴俊夫
本郷功次郎
三輪ひとみ
Rika Shinohara
松尾政寿
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Overview
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide. While performing the embalming process, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh where it does not belong. When the head is stolen from the body during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.
Release Date
1999-07-30
Average
4.667
Rating:
2.3 startsTagline
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