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Exte
is a 2007 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Sion Sono, and stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Satō. The title is a Japanese slang shortening Romanization of the English term "extension" from "hair extension".
Plot
Inside a shipping container, customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair used as materials for hair extensions, along with the body of a young girl with a shaved head. The corpse is transported to the morgue, where it is discovered that the girl's internal organs have been harvested by illegal organ traffickers. The morgue's night watchman, a tricophile named Yamazaki (Ren Osugi), is infatuated by the girl's hair and steals the body. He finds that the body has begun to grow hair everywhere, not just on every pore but in areas that shouldn't have hair: the head, vacant eye sockets, tongue, and open wounds. A delighted Yamazaki harvests the hair to make hair extensions to sell. However, the hair controls and kills its wearers, causing them to experience the dying memories of the dead girl, including the last thing she saw on the operating table: the smiling mouth of the man who killed her, unbeknownst to Yamazaki.
More details
author | Sion Sono |
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director | Sion Sono |
editor | Junichi Ito |
genre | comedy horror |
keywords | carry on customs agent hair extensions hair stylist illegal organ traffickers jump kill locked in megumi satō night watchman older sister ren osugi shaved head ship strangled to death trichophilia tricophile young girl |
musicBy | Tomoki Hasegawa |
producer | Makoto Okada |
publisher | Toei Company |
theme | comedy horror japanese japanese horror |