The slit-mouth woman (or Kuchisake-Onna, 口裂け女, in Japan) is an urban legend about a woman with a slit-mouth (meaning that the woman's mouth is cut from ear-to-ear. She wears a white mask to cover her severed mouth.
Kuchisake-Onna appears in the streets of Japan, murdering mainly children with a pair of huge scissors. But before Slith mouth woman kills the victim, she asks him/her this question: "Am I pretty?". If the victim answer yes, she will take off her mask, revealing her severed mouth, and asks "How about now?". This is the tricky part.......if you answer "no", she will kill the victim. If you say "yes", she will take her scissors, and cut the victim's mouth, making him/her have a slit-mouth just like her, but Kuchisake-Onna may let you live. It is impossible to escape from Kuchisake-Onna, because she can move at super-human speeds.
How did Kuchisake-Onna got her mouth severed? Some say it was a accident. Others say it was a surgery gone wrong. Yet, other people say that Kuchisake-Onna is an escaped mental patient who was so demented that she cut her own mouth apart.
But the most popular legend/explanation was because her husband sliced her mouth a sword because she was cheating on him. After he attacked her, he yelled "Who'll think you're beautiful now?!"
In the spring and summer of 1979, rumors started to spread throughout Japan about sightings of the Kuchisake-onna hunting down children. The story was spread like wildfire, causing many of Japan's towns to become afraid of the Kuchisake-Onna. It even caused the police to increased their patrols and made schools send teachers to walk students home in groups.
This urban legend is so well known in the japanese culture that they even made a movie based in the Kuchisake-onna called "Slit-Mouthed Woman"
Movie title: "Slit-Mouthed Woman"
Year: 2007
Director: Koji Shiraishi
Stars: Erico Sato, Haruhiko Kato and Chiharu Kawai
Country: Japan
Languaje: Japanese
Relase Date: 17 March 2007 (Japan)
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