Ayaka Maeda, Kansai Eto, Moe Karasawa, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Katsumi Nagashio

The unimaginable happens. In this short, Sayuri is pronounced 'dead' by her doctor, but her body continues to function. Her wounds begin to fester and her body begins to rot. Her once loving mother, f...( read more  read more... )ather and sister are repulsed as their home starts reeking of decomposing flesh. Unable to bear it any longer, they corner Sayuri holding a can of gasoline.... She flees for her life, but is snatched away by a strange man who runs a freak show, where Sayuri is forced to exhibit her putrefied body and dance before an audience of men dressed in black. Isolated in the desolate hills, Sayuri thinks she has escaped them, but she's wrong.

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Unrated, 44 min

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Release Date: December 31, 2005

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DVD Release Date: December 19, 2006

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  • January 7, 2009
    Shot in deeply contrasted black and white, reminiscent of the silent film era (the soundtrack also conjures up that time), this is J-Horror. Teenage Yuri appears to die of a heart attack, is pronounced dead but her body doesn't act like it. Her parents scold her for not behaving ...( read more)like a proper dead person as her body rots and limbs start falling off. They try to embalm and then cremate her, much to her chagrin.
  • December 20, 2009
    Another strange Japanese oddity concerning a young schoolgirl proclaimed dead after a heart attack by her doctor but she's still alive somewhat until some of her limbs start to drop off with her body starting to decompose!! All I can say is weird. I don't know if this is trying t...( read more)o be passed off as arthouse or not. Poor acting all around though you do sympathise with the girl's plight as her friends and parents turn against her. Give it a miss.
  • March 27, 2009
    Cheesy but a little entertaining. Poor girl has rather frightening parents...
  • April 1, 2008
    my brain is dead... but still walking... because this movie... is the worst B movie I've ever watched... repeating soundtrack... ain't scary but "hohoho... you will be scared to hell!!!"... cliche theme... it's just like being made on 1800 BC... so damn awful... please... don't w...( read more)atch this movie... or you'll be numb and paralyzed by your own fear about your TV... not the movie...

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