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The Man Behind the Scissors is a film of genre Thriller directed by Toshiharu Ikeda with Hiroshi Abe
The Man Behind the Scissors (2005)
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Add to a movie listThe Man Behind the Scissors (ハサミ男, Hasami Otoko) is a 2005 film directed by Japanese director Toshiharu Ikeda.
Based on a novel by Masayuki Shuno, the film is a psychological thriller about series of murders committed using scissors, the people who carried out the murders, and the police who are trying to catch them.
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The film opens with a female high school student meeting a man and woman in a remote location. She is stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors. This is followed by similar murder committed by the same people.Actors
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