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Kuchisake-onna (
the slit-mouthed lady) hails from a Japanese urban legend which revolves around a
yokai in the form of a woman who goes around town wearing a mask, wielding a pair of scissors and questioning passers-by if she's beautiful. Now, if you're being interrogated and you say that she's pretty, she would remove the mask, revealing an extremely long and deep gash on the lower half of her head, then she would ask the same question again. If you try to run, she'll hunt you down and kill you. On the contrary, if you say she's beautiful, she would use her knife to carve a slit on your mouth area so that you would look like her.
There are known ways of escaping her wrath such as saying that her looks are average. If you do this, she would be confused and you'll have time to run off. However, many versions of the legend state that she is virtually inexorable. If you manage to avoid her, she'll find you, eventually.
Notable films:
- Carved (2007)
- Kuchisake Onna (2007)
