The Man Behind the Scissors

Mar 19, 2005

2h 4m

★ 5.2

Overview

The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Kobi

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Cast

Yasunaga

Etsushi Toyokawa

Chika

Kumiko Aso

Horinouchi

Hiroshi Abe

Isobe

Koji Higuchi

Kenjirou Ishimaru

Terumi Niki

Miyuki Ono

Hidaka

Ayumu Saito

Yukiko

Mizuho Sakata

Minori Terada

Yukijiro Hotaru

Asumi Miwa

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