some questions and answers about this movie

hi folks...benzaemon here from Japan to chip in my unasked for two cents.
This movie is based on an urban legend from Japan, `Kuchisake Onna` or `split mouth lady`. The rumour about her existance started in the late eighties and spread like wildfire - kids of the time refused to leave their houses on an evening or walk home from school alone. A high school in a small countryside town called Kushiro actually closed because of children begging their parents to move away. crazy huh?
Therefore I agree with a previous poster who said that this movie had her needing to achieve critical mass of belief to exist, like candyman.
I also think this helps explain the part where the small girl says `she lives in a building with a red roof on a mountain` withut having any reason to know this. Because at the time everyone knew this, and other things about her without knowing why.
some common `facts` about her that where not used in the film -

she can run at 100 KM an hour (both hilarious and terrifying at the same time)

She is scared of Japanese punks, who use a special brand of hair gel called pomante. If you shout `POMANTE` five times shell run away

She loves a special kind of Japanese candy, if shes running after you and you throw them in another direction shell run after them and eat them first. but after shes finished shel be coming back at you and shes faster than an enraged cheetah, so have a few ready...

to be honest tho i didnt think much of this movie. slow, not much in the way of scares and a lack of coherence to the plot. it went straight to video here in japan and has sunk without trace, only to be dredged up by maniacs such as myself...
hope that helps someone somewhere...