Enbamingu

Shinji Aoyama

IndieLisboa 2007 •

Japan, Fiction, 1999, 96′

Miyako Murakami is an embalmer who discovers a needle in the eye socket of the corpse of a young man named Yoshiki, the son of a prominent politic, believed to be a suicide. The same day, Miyako is threatened by a religious crackpot who believes that embalming is a sin. Meanwhile thieves using knockout gas steal Yoshiki’s head from his body from the hospital in broad daylight…