Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman

Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman

Credits
Title:	Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman
Genres:	Horror
Directed by:	Kôji Shiraishi
Written by:	Naoyuki Yokota; Kôji Shiraishi
Produced by:	Ken Sakamoto; Kayako Hanamura; Shuntarô Kanai; Hirokazu Kokago; Nobumasa Miyazawa; Takafumi Ohashi; Saori Yabe; Yoshimitsu Yoshitsuru
Music by:	Chika Fujino; Gen Wano
Cinematography:	Shôzô Morishita
Edited by:	Shûichi Kakesu
Production
Distributed by:	Tornado Film For-side.com Twin Co. Ltd. Memory Tech Earl Grey Film
Released:	March 17th, 2007
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	90 min.
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
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Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman (口裂け女) is a Japanese feature film of the supernatural thriller genre with an emphasis on ghost fiction. It was written and directed by Kôji Shiraishi with a screenplay co-written by Naoyuki Yokota. It was produced by Tornado Film, For-side.com, Twin Co. Ltd., Memory Tech and Earl Grey Film and premiered in Japan on March 17th, 2007. The film stars Eriko Satô as a school teacher named Kyôko Yamashita with Haruhiko Katô as her colleague, Noboru Matsuzaki.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Eriko Satô

Kyôko Yamashita

Haruhiko Katô

Noboru Matsuzaki

Chiharu Kawai

Mayumi Sasaki

Rie Kuwana

Mika Sasaki

Kazuyuki Matsuzawa

Hideo Tamura

Kaori Sakagami

Saori Tamura

Sakina Kuwae

Natsuke Tamura

Yûto Kawase

Masotoshi Kita

Rio Nakamura

Unknown

Ryôko Takizawa

Kazuko Yoshida

Sâya Iri'e

Shiho Nakajima

Runa Okada

Unknown

Rio Iguchi

Unknown

Mei Tanaka

Yukiko Yoshida

Yui Matsuda

Unknown

Ayumi Kitaoka

Unknown

Taiga Tsubaki

Unknown

Aoi Shimoyama

Shingo Kuwabata

Yûya Kawamura

Unknown

Shûta Kambayashi

Unknown

Yûrei Yanagi

Detective Kubo

Tarô Suwa

School principal

Kôichirô Nishi

Kyôko's ex-husband

Shinji Kawada

Unknown

Chizuru Hatanaka

Unknown

Gaku Sakairi

Unknown

Kanako Kojima

Unknown

Nobu Takahashi

Unknown

Hiroaki Kawatsure

Unknown

Takeshi Aki

Unknown

Osamu Tsukikawa

Unknown

Akira Shimomoto

Unknown

Kazuya Nakajima

Unknown

Manami Hisamoto

Unknown

Shunta Watanabe

Unknown

Akira Matsuda

Unknown

Shiori Tanaka

Unknown

Jun Irie

Unknown

Kanako Yoshikawa

Unknown

Tôru Morinaga

Unknown

Hiroto Itô

Young Noboru

Hiroki Hirai

Unknown

Yukina Kashiwa

Unknown

Ayu Kanesaki

Ai Ôno

Kenji Kobayashi

Unknown

Natsumi Sakuma

Unknown

Momoko Nakanishi

Unknown

Miki Mizuno

Taeko Matsuzaki

Notes[]

The Japanese transliteration for this film title is Kuchisake-onna, or 口裂け女, both of which redirect to this page.
"Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman" also redirects to this page.
Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman was first released in the United States direct-to-video as a Region 1 DVD by Tartan Asia Extreme on August 14th, 2007. The home video release is in widescreen format with an aspect ratio of 1:85:1. The film was released again by E1 Entertainment on October 11th, 2011.
The movie was later released in the United States as part of a three-film combo pack along with Sheitan and Slaughter Night. The collection was released on October 13th, 2009.
There are a total of forty-nine credited cast members in this film.
Carved: A Slit Mouthed Woman has an audience score of 37% based on 682 users at the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. There is no Tomatometer rating for this film.
Actress Saaya is credited as Sâya Iri'e in this film.
This is the first, and to date, only known acting work for Yûto Kawase.

Fun Facts[]

The tagline for this film is "Am I pretty?"
The subject of this film is based on an actual urban legend called Kuchisake-onna, the "Slit-Mouthed Woman", which is an evil spirit characterized by wearing a surgical mask or veil and carrying medical objects. According to popular legend, she asks potential victims if they think she is attractive. If they respond with "no", she will kill them with her weapon. If they say "yes", she will reveal that the corners of her mouth are slit from ear to ear, and she will then repeat her question. If the individual responds with "no", she will kill them with her weapon, and if they say "yes", she will cut the corners of their mouth in such a way that resembles her own disfigurement.

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