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Embalming (1999) · EM / エンバーミング

Name: Embalming
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Genre: Drama, Gore, Misterio, Suspense
Released: 1999
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Reiko Takashima, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshio Shiba, Kōjirō Hongō, Hitomi Miwa

Original title: EM / エンバーミング

1999 · Shinji Aoyama · 96 min · Japan · Edited by 1

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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.

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Embalming (1999) · EM / エンバーミング

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