Embalming

1999 · 96 MIN · IMDB 5.3 · 270 VOTES · DIR. Shinji Aoyama

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Overview

Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.

Dialogue Timeline — 711 lines

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00:00:19 Embalming...
00:04:16 How can you tell?
00:11:36 What is it?
00:16:58 Yeah, I can use it as an excuse to spend more time with you.
00:20:20 Who do you think you are?!
00:22:27 They steal dead bodies from hospitals or funeral director's parlors
00:24:30 There's a certain man.
00:37:45 It's a head. A young boy's head.
00:41:13 and was pushed out during the embalming procedure
00:43:50 What's wrong?
00:48:51 Who's Rika?
00:51:29 In her case, there are at least four characters that exist.
00:53:26 Hideto Shindo's blood type doesn't match Yoshiki's.
00:56:03 That's my job.
01:00:16 I see... You're saying that this is only an excuse...
01:03:50 He used to be just an ordinary, humble doctor, like I was.
01:08:52 None of your business!
01:15:11 Get out! Get out!
01:18:05 Please tell Rika that Yoshiki is no longer alive, so she has to stop her plan.
01:22:20 Huh, what holy place?!
01:25:24 Stop it Rika.
01:28:38 That's not true.
01:33:59 Rie Setoguchi Kyoyo Morishita
01:35:35 Script, Editing, Music, Director: Shinji Aoyama

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed711
Dialogue density7.4 lines / min
First line00:00:19
Final line01:35:35

Production Record

DirectorShinji Aoyama
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes270