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Audio Format: DD2.0, DD 5.1
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region Code: 1
Year Made: 2007
Running Time: 109
Release Date: 08/25/2008
Neatly balanced between genuine J-horror and J-horror pastiche, cult fave Sion Sono's "Exte," is surprisingly ungoryand almost mainstream in its appeal, its victims gushing hair instead of blood. Long, black tresses, a secondary motif of J-horror, take center stage, both in the vocation of Sono's hairdresser-in-training heroine and as supernatural instruments of lethal revenge. Though lacking the visceral creepiness of Sono's signature "Suicide Club," "Exte" is nevertheless a hoot. Tonally shifting with each motley strand of its braided storyline, pic proves gleefully over-the-top while satisfyingly character-invested.
What if extensions carried the grudge of the individual to which the hair originally belonged and started attacking people wearing it at random?
Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair used as materials for 'hair extensions' along with the dead body of a young girl with a shaved head. With the corpse being soon transported by the police, the results of the autopsy determine that the woman's internal organs have been harvested. The possibility is pointed out that she was kidnapped in some foreign country and was a victim of black market human organ racketeering ring. A sinister, fearless smirk comes over Yamazaki (Ren Osugi), the morgue night watchman.
Yuko (Chiaki Kuriyama) is a young wannabe hair stylist apprenticing at a hair salon. After working late each day, after returning home, she tirelessly practices her skills on head mannequins with wigs. One day, her sister, Kiyomi, forcibly entrusts her eight-year-old daughter, Mami, to Yuko. For some reason, Mami is abnormally timid and frightened and has several wounds on her body from abuse.
Meanwhile, Yamazaki cuddles up with the corpse of the girl he stole from the morgue which now occupies his room. Hair has become to grow from her head once again, not only from her head but from where her organs were removed: the scars of her stomach and even her empty eye socket. Later, Yamazaki shows up at Yuko's salon with Mami who got lost looking for Yuko. Yamazaki takes one look at Yuko and is captivated by her lovely flowing hair...
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