Orozco the Embalmer

Orozco the Embalmer

Orozco the Embalmer

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Orozco the Embalmer

2001

1h 32m

6.4(36 votes)

Documentary

Horror

Overview

In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.

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Froilan Orozco

Self

Biruta

Self

Wipa

Self

Birutica

Self

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Directed by: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
Written by: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

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