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Creeping body terror in the tradition of Eyes Without a Face from the creator of the sleazy All Night Long series. Kirei? The Terror of Beauty (aka Ki-re-i? 2004) ...
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I watched this movie because a friend was getting really into these Japanese horror films that have become the rage of a foreign film industry since the ring.
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