Exte

Infobox_Film
name = Exte -HAIR EXTENSIONS-


director = Sion Sono
producer = Makoto Okada
writer = Sion Sono Masaki Adachi
starring = Chiaki Kuriyama
Ren Osugi
Megumi Sato Tsugumi
music = Tomoki Hasegawa
cinematography = Hiroo Yanagida
editing = Junichi Ito
distributor = Toei Company
released = flagicon|Japan February 17, 2007
runtime = 108 min
language = Japanese
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nihongo|Exte| エクステ| Ekusute is a 2007 Japanese horror film written and directed by Sion Sono, and stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Sato.

Plot

What if extensions carried the grudge of the individual to which the hair originally belonged and started attacking people wearing it at random?

Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair used as materials for 'hair extensions' along with the dead body of a young girl with a shaved head. With the corpse being soon transported by the police, the results of the autopsy determine that the woman's internal organs have been harvested. The possibility is pointed out that she was kidnapped in some foreign country and was a victim of black market human organ racketeering ring. A sinister, fearless smirk comes over Yamazaki (Ren Osugi), the morgue night watchman.

Yuko (Chiaki Kuriyama) is a young wannabe hair stylist apprenticing at a hair salon. After working late each day, after returning home, she tirelessly practices her skills on head mannequins with wigs. One day, her sister, Kiyomi, forcibly entrusts her eight-year-old daughter, Mami, to Yuko. For some reason, Mami is abnormally timid and frightened and has several wounds on her body from abuse.

Meanwhile, Yamazaki cuddles up with the corpse of the girl he stole from the morgue which now occupies his room. Hair has become to grow from her head once again, not only from her head but from where her organs were removed: the scars of her stomach and even her empty eye socket.

Later, Yamazaki shows up at Yuko's salon with Mami who got lost looking for Yuko. Yamazaki takes one look at Yuko and is captivated by her lovely flowing hair. He then feels embarrassed and runs off. Yuko then leaves work to go and take Mami home and sees all the disaster she caused in Yuko's room...

Cast

* Yuko Mizushima - Chiaki Kuriyama
* Yamazaki Gunji - Ren Osugi
* Kiyomi Mizushima - Tsugumi
* Sachi Koda - Eri Machimoto
* Mami Mizushima - Miku Sato
* Yuki Morita - Megumi Sato

External links

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* [http://www.exte-movie.jp/ Exte Official Website]
* [http://www.sarudama.com/japanese_movies/exte.shtml "EXTE" review] at SaruDama.com