Shockdocumentary: OROZCO EL EMBALSAMADOR

The legendary shockdocumentary film that has been said impossible to go on sale when it hit the screen in 1999 because of the shocking footage of embalming and caused much controversy, 'OROZCO EL EMBALSAMADOR' finally comes out on DVD on October 1st, 2005 ! As a completed edition it includes never-seen-before footage. Attracted to Colombia, the land of love and violence, the corpse photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is led to the most dangerous area called 'El Cartucho' in Bogota where the public order is the worst in the world. There he met an old veteran embalmer Froilan Orozco in the neighbor of "rue morgue". It was not surprisingly that Tsurisaki got interested in the profession and deeply impressed by the fact that as an embalmer Orozco keepd mourning for countless victims of violence and bloody history in Colombia. This led Tsurisaki to undergo the long-term coverage of 3 years. Tsurisaki infiltratethed 'El Cartucho' and revealed the essence of love and violence through the coverage of an embalmer Froilan Orozco. Is it social or bizarre? Is it beauty or bad taste? It's all up to you to judge what it is.