Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet

Jun 18, 2005

1h 7m

★ 5.0

Overview

When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again...

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Pony Canyon

Shogakukan Production

Shochiku

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet Trailers

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Cast

Mother

Yuki Enomoto

Tomoko

Naomi Kaizuka

Rie

Shoko Nakagawa

Mother's Lover

Utaemon Ohmori

Detective

Kanji Tsuda

Akira

Yuuki Tsujimoto

Tomoko

Miku Ueno

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