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Kuchisake-Onna 2 is the prequel to the original Kuchisake-Onna movie released on March 22nd 2008 and directed by Kotaro Terauchi. It is based on the actual legend and some true events that occurred in Japan.

PLOT

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Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town of Gifu-this event is said to take place in 1978. The oldest sister, Sachiko Sawada, is engaged to be married. The middle sister, Yuki works at a beauty salon in the city. The youngest, Mayumi is on the track team in high school who is infatuated with the captain of the track team and senior student, Seiji Moriyama. Sachiko's ex-boyfriend, Suzuki, comes by the Sawada farm in order to give her father a wedding present and to discuss a business proposition.During the wedding Sachiko sees him standing outside the house watching her but he quickly disappears. The scene pans to Yuki leaving for the city with her mother and Mayumi. Their mother happily reminisces on the days where they use to play as kids. As graduation nears for Seiji, Mayumi decides to make him some gloves as a present.(Which he confuses as great pot holders and is later seen using them for just that purpose.) He then takes her to his favorite spot where he used to run and together they enjoy his favorite view of the town. Seiji gives her a button off his uniform, commenting that he saved it just for her. Later that night Mayumi is seen sleeping in Sachiko's room. Sachiko’s ex-boyfriend, Suzuki, commits an atrocious crime with Mayumi as the tragic victim. Half-crazed and bent on revenge against the Sawada family, Suzuki mistakes the sleeping Mayumi for Sachiko and pours sulfuric acid all over her face. When Mrs. Sawada hears Mayumi's screams, she runs upstairs and is confronted by the crazed Suzuki brandishing a knife and demanding Sachiko's whereabouts. When she does not respond, he tackles her and slices her face with the knife. As Mrs. Sawada struggles to get out from under Suzuki, he is momentarily stopped by a warning gun shot fired by Mr. Sawada.

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Suzuki screams his confusion on why Sachiko did not choose him and blames the Sawada family for his misfortune. In his rage he stabs Mrs. Sawada through the mouth, instantly killing her and in turn being shot through the head by Mr. Sawada. As Mr. Sawada stands in shock over the death of his wife, Mayumi slowly crawls out of the room moaning in intense pain. The next day, rumors rapidly spread across town about what happened the night before. utterly ruining the Sawada name and further damaging the family. Sachiko moves back home in order to take care of her father and Mayumi. The scene changes to Mayumi, her dad and her two sisters at the hospital. The doctor tells them that he's done all he can do to repair her face and that anymore surgery will jeopardize her life. The day Mayumi comes home, her friends come by asking to see her. They are greeted by Sachiko who tells them that Mayumi is not yet feeling well enough for visitors. As they leave, they idly wonder if Mayumi will ever come back to school. Mayumi watches their exchange from the window. She then gets a call from the Seiji who tries to cheer her up. When the call ends, Mayumi is seen in the family shrine in front of her mother's picture atop the alter. She then decides to remove her bandages- replacing them with a medical face mask. Sachiko is in the hallway cleaning up from that night when she sees a bit of blood splatter on the doorway. While she wipes the area clean, Mayumi approaches her telling her she's decided to go back to school. But, when Mayumi goes back she is not safe from the constant stares and whispers she gets from the townspeople and fellow classmates; despite wearing the surgical mask to cover up her scars.

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When the insults go too far, Mayumi overhears a girl's insults ending in calling her father crazy, she attacks that female student in the school hallway. Later telling her sister that they can insult her but not her father. As Mayumi and her sister walk home, she receives a letter from Seiji. In the distance she sees a woman dressed in red but her face cannot be seen clearly. Later that night Mayumi reads Seiji's letter, he describes his new life in Tokyo and the hardships that came with it. Mayumi writes him back about how her life and school is going-that her scars are slowly healing. When things seem like they're getting better, Mr. Sawada succumbs to depression and the pressures from the loss of his wife, farm and debt. He drives out to his farm and commits suicide by shooting himself. The two eldest sit in front of the shrine morning the loss of both parents. Sachiko blames herself, if she hand't broken up with him none of the events would have occurred. Yuki decides to move back in and help support Mayumi and Sachiko. Mayumi sits outside on a swing distraught over her father's death, she sees that same lady in red again. At dinner that night Sachiko announces she's getting a part-time job, though on her first day she too is not safe from the rampant rumors about town. The following day as Mayumi walks into class, she sees that her classmates have drawn a grotesque picture of what she looks like under her mask on the board and branding her as "Mutant Girl". She merely erases the picture and takes her place in her seat. When her best friends walk in, they only hesitate for an instant before completely dismissing her; distancing themselves so not to be outcasts by association. During a track practice, Mayumi's friends are seen talking to this girl who questions them about the events that have occurred. She asks them if they were her best friends which they deny. Little do they know Mayumi overhears the conversation from behind the fence.

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Mayumi writes a letter to Seiji the next day. When he opens his mail box he is wary in openly receiving it, now that it is hinted he has a live in girlfriend. He quickly puts her letter back into his box before his girlfriend catches sight of it. Kenji, Sachiko's husband, talks to Sachiko about moving in with her and gives back unsigned divorce papers. She inquires on what about his family's opinion and he replies that he will fix it and that he loves her. Sachiko says he can move in after Mayumi graduates. That evening Mayumi is in her room looking into a mirror, when she takes off her mask, her face is disfigured on the right side with a surgical scar still healing. In the mirror she sees the reflection of the lady in red (Kuchisake-Onna)and runs out of the room screaming to the phone to call Yuki. When she hangs up the phone, Mayumi goes to lock the front door, but the lady in red is seen standing outside. Mayumi then runs screaming into the kitchen. What looks to be the red lady approaching her is in fact Sachiko walking in from her talk with Kenji. The morning after, as the Sawada's are having breakfast, it is announced on TV that Mayumi's friends, Junko Muraoka and Kaoru Yamamoto, were attacked and killed by A lady in red. The next day, Mayumi goes to the funeral where she sees Seiji who came back for the funeral; after some talking she asks to go see the view with him before he leaves for Tokyo again. Mayumi then walks to her sister's shop and asks to have her hair cut. When Mayumi and Seiji are at the spot, he tells her people have been saying they're dating. He asks her if she had anything to do with these rumors, hinting that such rumors were unacceptable. She asks him why were those rumers were a problem. He goes on to explain that he always thought of her as a little sister much to Mayumi's heartbreak. She asks if he thought her as beautiful which he answers in the affirmative. When she removes her mask and asks him if she's still pretty he tells her he's seeing someone. As they're walking down the hill Mayumi, revealed to be Kuchisake-Onna, attacks Seiji with the scissors. The scene changes to Mayumi washing the blood off the scissors in a sink then flashes back to the day where she killed Junko and Kaoru, it is heavily implied that she has been suppressing everything. The scene then flashes back to Mayumi at the sink where she sees her reflection without a face.

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Yuki is approached by her boss who tells her they are opening a new shop and Yuki can run it. Yuki is excited that her dreams has come true and the new shop will be near home. That night when she tells everyone the news the cops show up asking for Mayumi. It was well known that she may have been the last person to have contact with the now missing Seiji is. While she denies being close to Seiji and that, no, they never did meet up as they planned, Yuki believes she knows something but is not telling. Yuki asks for an early leave the next day to go home and search Mayumi's room, there she sees a doll that Mayumi had made in the image of Seiji. While looking around, Yuki comes across Mayumi's bloodstained dress from the day she was with Seiji before she killed him. Sachiko announces to Kenji that she believes she's pregnant. She asks if she should abort the child because of the bad circumstances surrounding her family which Kenji replies with a hard no. That he was happy that she's with child and he wants to continue down that road. Later on, Yuki shows Sachiko the bloodstained dress and opts to go to the police; Sachiko says no saying that it would ruin what they had left. She asks for some time. The next morning she puts rat poison in Mayumi's juice. When she falls over and in moments ceases to move, Sachiko reaches over to check if she's dead-only to be cut by the scissors Mayumi had hidden behind her back before she died. Sachiko runs to get a bucket and rag and starts to clean up the blood while the distraught Yuki stares at Mayumi's dead body. To keep her from staring at Mayumi, Sachiko places a tan trench coat over the body. Throughout this whole episode, Sachiko convinces Yuki that it had to be done. That night they established an alibi as they drive to dump Mayumi's body. They dig a grave, put the body in (Tan coat and all), and fill it in. The next morning at work, Yuki is still distraught over Mayumi's death; unable to stop her hands from trembling. Sachiko finishes cleaning up the house. The climactic end scene shows a still alive Mayumi(or living dead one)walking back to find her sisters. As Yuki is cutting a customer's hair she sees Mayumi in the window. The owner greets Mayumi only to be stabbed in the gut by a very big pair of scissors (Note that she is wearing the now infamous tan coat). Yuki, who was already being eaten up with guilt, pleads with Mayumi and tells her she didn't know-only to have her fingers sliced off and to be killed by Mayumi stabbing her in the mouth (In the same style as Suzuki's knife in their mother's mouth).

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Sachiko is at home unpacking her husband's stuff when Mayumi appears in the doorway. In a desperate attempt to escape Mayumi, she throws books at her only to be stabbed in the shoulder. Sachiko runs downstairs to the door, but decides to go to the kitchen and kill Mayumi for good. She stabs Mayumi with a large kitchen knife and she falls to the floor as Sachiko runs for help. Mayumi is not dead (or still undead but far from done) and runs after her sister. Sachiko sees people at the end of an alleyway and gradually makes her way towards them only to be stabbed repeatedly by Mayumi when she thinks she's finally safe. Before she dies Mayumi asks Kuchisake-Onna's infamous phrase "Am I...pretty?" There is no response and Sachiko drops dead. The movie ends with the people at the end of the alleyway not noticing what has happened. When it starts to rain, a little boy notices Mayumi dressed in the trench coat with giant scissors and Sachiko's dead body. As he stares in horror, Mayumi notices the boy and walks towards him, revealing the slit on the side of her mouth. At the end various voices can be heard talking about the legend of Kuchisake-Onna.

CAST

Rin Asuka- Mayumi Sawada

Based on a true story?

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It was stated at the beginning of the movie that the events of Kuchisake-Onna 2 were based on true events. At the ending of the movie it had an article report about what happened.

    -"On May 18th, 1978, a serial killer claimed 13 lives and injured 52. Police found evidence linking them to murders of 2 other high school girls. A witness at Yoshizawa identified Mayumi Sawada as the suspect. A knife and large quantities of blood were discovered in the Sawada residence. Prints on the knife matched those of Sachiko Sawada, but not the blood type. The blood type matched Mayumi Sawada, but due to lack of advanced DNA testing, conclusive links were never made and the case remains unsolved. Seiji Moriyama's body was never found. Mayumi Sawada's whereabouts are still unknown...-"