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Yoko (Yukiko Okamoto) is a successful plastic surgeon, and a pretty one
too, who loves her job - not in the least for the money that's in it - and
loves beauty as such. She will go to quite some length to make someone
beautiful, provided he or she pays up.
One day, she is visited by Yoshie, a truly ugly woman, so ugly in fact
that she insists that Yoko operates on her without nurses or anyone else
even knowing she's here. Yoko doesn't feel too comfy about operating all
on her own, but Yoshie's money convinces her otherwise.
But once her face is done, Yoshie is not satisfied, she wants more, she
wants Yoko to operate on her body as well, then on her vagina, then more
work on the face ... Yoko feels more and more at unease with her patient's
needs, but Yoshie's money always convinces her to go on - until she
cancels an appointment with Yoshie to spend the night with her boyfriend
Namura, with whom that night she eventually has sex on the very same
operating table on which she operated on Yoshie ... and what she doesn't
know is that Yoshie is peeping in from the outside ...
From that day on, Yoshie stops calling Yoko or stopping by her clinic,
but accidents start to happen - first Yoko realizes that there is blood
mixed in with her red wine, then a nurse accidetnly washes her face in
acid, then a breast implant of one of Yoko's patient's explodes ... it
doesn't take Yoko long to figure Yoshie must be behind all of it - but
Yoshie is nowhere to be found, even her name and address seem to be wrong,
plus after so much surgery, not even Yoko knows what she might look like
...
Several days later, Yoko is stood up by her boyfriend Namura ... but
when she comes back home, she finds him on the very same operating table
they had sex on, making love to a beautiful woman ... who turns out to be
Yoshie, wanting her revenge on her doctor. And to have that revenge, she
not only shags but also kills Namura - but she gets herself in such a
frenzy that her the skin on her nose nose, face and legs, stretched from
too much surgery, cracks open, and when Yoko can eventually defeat her,
Yoshie dies an ugly woman ...
But the experience ahs changed Yoko, and soon afterwards she disfigures
herself.
Much later: Thanks to plastic surgery, Yoko is pretty again, but it is
only now that she really undersstands her patients' needs.
A bitter satire and a horrific parable on our society's obsession with
beauty, dressed up as a horror film - but while not bad, the film never
manages to exploit its full potential and falls short of its lofty goals,
especially because the ending - after the demise of Yoshie - is needlessly
dragged out and rather underwhelming where it could have been short and
poignant. However, that's nlot to say the film is not entertaining and
even thoughtful at times.
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