• Director(s)

    Koji Shiraishi

  • Production Year

    2007

  • Genre(s)

    Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai

Film

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman

strong violence, horror, injury detail, threat, domestic abuse

CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN is a Japanese horror film, from 2007, in which the evil spirit of a woman with a disfigured face goes on a child kidnapping spree in a suburban Japanese town. …

CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN is a Japanese horror film, from 2007, in which the evil spirit of a woman with a disfigured face goes on a child kidnapping spree in a suburban Japanese town.

violence
There are sequences of strong violence, such as people being bloodily stabbed with scissors and knives. A child's face is disfigured with a knife and another is stabbed to death, although much of the detail is masked. An evil spirit slices into the back of a man's legs with a knife, rendering him unable to walk. A man is heard decapitating a dead woman, with his body masking the visual detail. Scenes also include domestic abuse from a mother towards her young children in which she repeatedly hits and kicks them.
threat and horror
Pervasive strong threat and horror is present throughout from an evil, abusive female spirit with a disfigured face who kidnaps and murders children. After kidnapping them, she keeps them tied up in a basement. Other females transform into the disfigured woman at various points in the film.
injury detail
After decapitating her, a man clutches an evil spirit's severed head. Strong injury detail in the aftermath of violence includes sight of knife wounds to the mouth, beaten and bruised children and bloody images due to stabbings. The skeletal remains of murdered children are discovered in a basement and there is sight a child's bloodied dead body.

  • Director(s)

    Koji Shiraishi

  • Production Year

    2007

  • Genre(s)

    Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai

strong violence, horror, injury detail, threat, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
28/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
violence
There are sequences of strong violence, such as people being bloodily stabbed with scissors and knives. A child's face is disfigured with a knife and another is stabbed to death, although much of the detail is masked. An evil spirit slices into the back of a man's legs with a knife, rendering him unable to walk. A man is heard decapitating a dead woman, with his body masking the visual detail. Scenes also include domestic abuse from a mother towards her young children in which she repeatedly hits and kicks them.
threat and horror
Pervasive strong threat and horror is present throughout from an evil, abusive female spirit with a disfigured face who kidnaps and murders children. After kidnapping them, she keeps them tied up in a basement. Other females transform into the disfigured woman at various points in the film.
injury detail
After decapitating her, a man clutches an evil spirit's severed head. Strong injury detail in the aftermath of violence includes sight of knife wounds to the mouth, beaten and bruised children and bloody images due to stabbings. The skeletal remains of murdered children are discovered in a basement and there is sight a child's bloodied dead body.

  • Classified date

    28/10/2024

  • Language

    Japanese