Imprint (Masters of Horror episode)

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Masters of Horror episode
“Imprint”

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 13
Guest star(s)	Billy Drago Youki Kudoh Michie Itô Toshie Negishi
Writer(s)	Daisuke Tengan
Director	Takashi Miike
Production no.	113
Original airdate	N/A
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"Imprint" is the thirteenth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It aired in North America on February 25, 2006. It was originally scheduled to premiere on January 27, 2006 but was shelved by Showtime due to concerns over its extremely graphic and disturbing content, which features torture, incest and abortions. Hence, it was largely unavailable to American audiences until it was released to DVD on September 26, 2006.

The film was directed by Takashi Miike, a prolific director of yakuza films but also highly notable in the horror genre for his films Audition, Ichi The Killer and to a lesser extent One Missed Call, which is presently in post-production in Hollywood form.

[edit] Plot

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An American's search for a Japanese prostitute he fell in love with leads him to a sinister island zoned for brothels and a mysterious deformed young woman who knows what really happened.

[edit] Trivia

Imprint DVD.

In the montage sequence where the young deformed woman is viewing the painting of demons, there is one humanoid demon who has a razor spike attached to his left heel, which he apparently used to cut a man in half from head to groin. This is most likely a direct allusion to another Takashi Miike film, Ichi the Killer, in which the main character would cut people in half in such a manner.