Well, I guess they can't all be excellent pieces...
I'm sure I've heard of this Japanese urban legend before, but this one in particular is a disfigured woman turns up, asks "Am I pretty?" then I'm fairly sure whatever you answer you are in trouble. Although no-one gets around to answering her, she just turns up and then there is the encounter. Her basic method is to kidnap children, and I think disfigure them (the movie doesn't exactly focus on it), but what we also find out is that... she's actually a spirit that possesses women and transform them, and it's tied into mothers hurting their children is linked to her.
Oh yeah, this movie features a lot of mothers slapping children, so warning for that. (Nothing overly graphic, just her slit mouth is the worst we see, otherwise bruising etc on the kids.)
Anyway, one teacher is looking for a kidnapped kid because she hit her own daugher and the daugther wants nothing to do with her (yeah, there's problematic connections there). But there is also another teacher whose mother is the actual Slit-Mouthed Woman (or the original possessed woman), which has a whole slew of other problematic components.
This is fine... nothing too amazing happens plotwise. At around half way through the movie, the main protagonists suddenly go "oh, she lives there" and so go there. Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience. Otherwise, there is a lot of standing around and... brown. This whole movie is saturated in brown. Maybe it was a bad copy I got, but it was just very blah to look at.
I've got others of his, so hopefully better to come. I just wish there was an easy way to watch all these J-horror movies I'm hearing about.
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