Takaaki Hashiguchi's KUCHISAKE, w/ Mayu Asada, Minami Aoyama, Lemon Hanazawa, Kyôko Kazama, Hotaru

The latest movie from Takaaki Hashiguchi (a.k.a. Takuaki Hashiguchi) is the hybrid pink-horror Kuchisake. Takashi Oda (see below) was responsible for the movie's special make-up effects. Its principal cast is as follows: Mayu Asada (she was in Sakichi Satô's Gokudô deka), Minami Aoyama (she was in Kôsuke Suzuki's Stop the Bitch Campaign Again (Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô: jigoku-hen)), Lemon Hanazawa (Hanazawa Remon), Kyôko Kazama (she played Lobstera in Takao Nakano's Queen Bee Honey (Bikyonyû kosupure senshi: Kuinbî Hanî)), Hotaru Hazuki (Haduki Hotaru; she was in Takashi Motoki's P-KAN★couple (Pîkan fûfu)), Azusa Sakai, Kikujirô Honda (he was in Takao Nakano's Mikosurihan gekijô: namashibori sûpâ DX), Mikiya Sanada, Taishi Takemoto, Mikio Satô (he was in Kôsuke Suzuki's Stop the Bitch Campaign (Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô)), Takeshi Itô, and Shûji Ôtsuki (he's in Iwao Takahashi's Cream Lemon: Ami's Diary (Kurîmu remon: Ami no nikki)).

Kuchisake is scheduled to be screened every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. from September 7th to October 5th at the Uplink X in Tokyo.

Takashi Oda's past credits - primarily as a special make-up effects artist - apparently include Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine (Sonachine), Shûsuke Kaneko's Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe (Gamera: daikaijû kûchû kessen), (Shûsuke) Kaneko's Gakkô no kaidan 3, Naoyuki Tomomatsu's Stacy, Gen Takahashi's Lady Plastic, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Doppelganger (Dopperugengâ), and all of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's features from Hiruko the Goblin (Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko) to Vital (Vitâru).