History Recap / MastersOfHorrorS1E13Imprint

* AbusiveParents: The disfigured prostitute's father was a violent drunk who beat her mother and [[spoiler:raped his inbred daughter, prompting her to kill him.]]
* AlcoholicParent: The prostitute's father turned to drinking to evade from living in poverty [[spoiler:due to his incestuous relationship with his sister.]]
* AndShowItToYou: After Christopher shoots [[spoiler:Komomo]] through the head in his madness, she picks out a few pieces of her brain in shock before she dies.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: The disfigured prostitute's [[spoiler:siamese "sister"]] is clearly the one in charge.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The nicest thing to say about the disfigured prostitute's one. [[spoiler:The father and mother were incestuous siblings who lived in poverty. The father beat the mother, the mother aborted or murdered all her children, except for the resilient girl who eventually became the prostitute. The father raped the girl during one of his violent stupors and she beat him to death in return. The mother sold her daughter into sexual slavery because she couldn't care for her anymore. Finally, the girl has a mutant, evil twin sister growing out of the side of her head.]]

* BodyHorror: The disfigured prostitute's [[spoiler:"sister" is a hand with a mouth and eye attached to her head.]]

** In a major twist it's revealed that [[spoiler:the disfigured prostitute's parents were actually siblings. They were run out of their town and lived in poverty for the rest of their lives. The brother turned abusive towards his sister and was killed by his inbred daughter after implicitly raping her.]]
** Christopher had a relationship with his younger sister. [[spoiler:It's later implied that he raped and killed her and was driven insane because of it.]]

* DeathOfAChild: The Woman's mother has murdered dozens of her infants [[spoiler:and Christopher is suggested to have murdered his little sister when they were young.]]

* DomesticAbuse: The disfigured prostitute's father constantly beat his wife [[spoiler:because they were both cast out for being incestuous siblings.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: The disfigured prostitute claims first that this was what happened to Komomo, who hanged herself when Christopher failed to return. After Christopher says he doesn't believe her, she admits that [[spoiler: she actually killed Komomo (and was also the one that committed the robbery and falsely accused Komomo in the first place).]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:Christopher is eventually revealed to be insane and haunted with nightmarish visions due to his sister's murder.]] This calls into question most of the events of the story -- only the opening and the ending can be said with fair certainty to be real and only partially so.
* EvilTwin: The disfigured prostitute reveals at the end that [[spoiler:she has a twin "sister", a mutated abomination attached to her head as a result of her parents' inbreeding (they were brother and sister). The mutant forced her sister to do evil things like steal a valuable ring and set up another prostitute to be tortured for it.]]

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The prostitute Komomo is explicitly described as this. She lingers on to the promise Christopher made to take her away from her hard life. [[spoiler:Which makes it all the more tragic that he murdered her in his insanity.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: The disfigured prostitute and [[spoiler:her evil mutant twin]] shrug off being shot and taunt Christopher that they'll follow him everywhere. [[spoiler:This is because they're part of his deranged visions.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Christopher believes the prostitute Komomo to be the love his life. He ends up accidentally murdering her during his hallucinations. He also killed his sister after sleeping with, or raping her.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: The disfigured prostitute's mother repeatedly threw her own infants away to drown in the river [[spoiler:because they're inbred children -- her husband is also her own brother.]]
* ParentalIncest: It's strongly implied that the disfigured prostitute was raped by her abusive father when she was a child. [[spoiler:She was herself also a product of incest, as her parents were secretly siblings.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: The episode begins with the prostitute informing Christopher that the girl he's been looking for, Komomo, recently died. The rest is spent on the prostitute telling of Komomo's final weeks and her own life story. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end when it turns out that the prostitute ''is'' Komomo after Christopher murders her.]]
* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:The prostitute beat her father to death while he was drunk for raping her earlier.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: The prostitute reveals that a big part of why she's so emotionally scarred is her horrific youth, where she was seperately raped by [[spoiler:her father and a local Budhist monk.]]
* RashomonStyle: Single character variety -- the disfigured prostitute tells different versions of the same tale as Christopher continues to dig deeper for the truth. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end when it turns out that Christopher hallucinated all the prostitute's stories and is just insane.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The disfigured prostitute tells Christopher how she beat her father to death after he raped her when she was still a child.]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:After all the horrible events that the disfigured prostitute tells Christopher and the revelation of a siamese EvilTwin, he shoots the prostitute and it turns out to be Komomo all along. He was actually driven completely insane from what's implied to be guilt for raping and killing his sister and the entire story was part of Christopher's hallucinations.]]

* {{Youkai}}: The disfigured prostitute is a vengative, superpowered, deformed yet beautiful Japanese woman with a supernumerary organ [[spoiler:on her head]], in the vein of the Futakuchi-onna and similar creatures.

* {{Youkai}}: The disfigured prostitute is a vengative, superpowered, deformed yet beautiful woman, with a supernumerary organ [[spoiler:on her head]], in the vein of the Futakuchi-onna and similar creatures.

* {{Youkai}}: The disfigured prostitute is an evil, superpowered, deformed yet beautiful woman, with a supernumerary organ [[spoiler:on her head]], in the vein of the Futakuchi-onna and similar creatures.

* TranslationConvention: The episode is set in 19th century Japan with a single American main character. Unlike second season's ''[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E13Dream Cruise Dream Cruise]]'', this episode was filmed in English but with all the characters presumed to be speaking Japanese the entire time. In fact, Christopher is first thought to be Dutch, because the story is set shortly after the end of Japan's Sakoku period, when the only Westerners allowed were Dutch traders.

* TranslationConvention: The episode is set in 19th century Japan with a single American main character. Unlike second season's "Dream Cruise", this episode was filmed in English but with all the characters presumed to be speaking Japanese the entire time. In fact, Christopher is first thought to be Dutch, because the story is set shortly after the end of Japan's Sakoku period, when the only Westerners allowed were Dutch traders.

* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:After the father raped the Woman as a child, she beat him to death when he's drunk.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:The prostitute eventually reveals that a big part of why she's so emotionally scarred is her horrific youth, where she was seperately raped by both her father and a local Budhist monk.]]

* SexSlave: In one of the versions of the story, the disfigured prostitute was sold into forced prostitution by her mother after the father died.

* TranslationConvention: The episode is set in 19th century Japan with a single American main character. Unlike the second season's "Dream Cruise", this episode was filmed in English but with all the characters presumed to be speaking Japanese the entire time. Christopher is first thought to be Dutch[[note]]The story is set shortly after the end of Japan's Sakoku period, when the only Western traders allowed were Dutch[[/note]].

* WretchedHive: The remote island is "only inhabited by demons and whores".

* AlcoholicParent: The prostitute's father turned to drinking to drown his sorrows from living in poverty [[spoiler:due to his incestuous relation with his sister.]]
* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler:After Christopher shoots Komomo through the head in his madness, she picks out a few pieces of her brain in shock before she dies.]]
* BadBoss: The madame is suggested to torture her prostitutes for the sake of it, Komomo in particular. [[spoiler:Due to the ambiguous nature of the story it's hard to tell what kind of person she ''really'' is.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy: [[spoiler: The disfigured prostitute's siamese "sister" is clearly the one in charge]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The nicest thing to say about the disfigured prostitute's one. [[spoiler:The father and mother were incestuous siblings who lived in poverty. The father beat the mother, while the mother aborted or murdered all her inbred infants, except for the resilient girl who eventually became the prostitute. The father raped the girl during one of his violent stupors and she beat him to death in return. The mother sold her daughter into sexual slavery because she couldn't care for her anymore with the father gone. Finally, the girl has a mutant, evil twin sister growing out of the side of her head.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: The disfigured prostitute tells how her father eventually coughed up blood after a prolongued illness and promptly died in a river.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The disfigured prostitute's "sister" is a hand with a mouth attached to her head.]]
* BrainBleach: From beginning to end.

** In a major twist it's revealed that [[spoiler:the disfigured prostitute's parents were actually siblings. They were run out of their town and lived in poverty for the rest of their lives. The brother turned cruel and abusive towards his sister and was killed by his inbred daughter after he is implied to have raped her.]]
** Christopher had a relationship with his younger sister. [[spoiler:It's later implied that he raped and killed her and was driven insane due to it.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The prostitute's backstory is composed of one trauma after the other, getting more disturbing with each revision of her story.
* DeathOfAChild: The Woman's mother has murdered dozens of her own infants [[spoiler:and Christopher is suggested to have murdered his little sister when they were young.]]

* DomesticAbuse: The disfigured prostitute's late father was cruel and violent and constantly beat his wife [[spoiler:because they were both cast out for being incestuous siblings.]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:Christopher is eventually revealed to be insane and haunted with nightmarish visions due to his sister's murder. This calls into question most of the events of the story -- only the opening and the ending can be said with fair certainty to be real at all and only partially so.]]
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:The disfigured prostitute reveals at the end that she has a twin "sister", a mutated abomination attached to her head as a result of her parents' inbreeding (they were brother and sister). The mutant forced her sister to do evil things like steal a valuable ring and set up another prostitute to be tortured for it.]]
* FacialHorror:
** The disfigured prostitute has the features on the right side of her face stretched out.
** The dwarf pimp is missing part of his nose.
* {{Fingore}}: Komomo is tortured by the madam by getting needles shoved underneath her nails.

* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Christopher believes the prostitute Komomo to be the love his life. He ends up accidentally murdering her during his hallucinations.]]
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: One of the pimps on the [[WretchedHive hellish island]] is a dwarf with a missing nose, signifying how the episode is gonna be one long decline into surreal horror and insanity.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:The disfigured prostitute claims to have murdered Komomo to spare her the life of a prostitute and being tortured by the madam. She believes that she sent Komomo from Hell to Heaven.]]

* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:It's strongly implied that the disfigured prostitute was raped by her abusive father when she was a child. She was herself also a product of incest, as her parents were secretly siblings.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: The episode begins with the prostitute informing Christopher that the girl he's been looking for, Komomo, recently died. The rest of it is spent with the prostitute telling him of Komomo's final weeks and her own life story. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end when it turns out that the prostitute ''is'' Komomo after Christopher murders her.]]

Directed by Creator/TakashiMiike and based on a novel by Shimako Iwai. In 19th century Japan, an American journalist named Christopher (Creator/BillyDrago) arrives at a remote island looking for Komomo (Michie), a woman he's in love with that was sold to a brothel by her adoptive family. While there he comes across a disfigured prostitute (Youki Kudoh) that tells him the story of her life. This episode was filmed in Japan by Kadokawa Pictures and was never broadcast unedited due to its ridiculously high BrainBleach quotient.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A few scenes depicting the disfigured girl have her with dark blue hair, especially noticeable in her childhood.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The disfigured prostitute [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair has blue hair]] and clothes, the other prostitutes red, and the madame greenish-black.

Directed by Creator/TakashiMiike and based on a novel by Shimako Iwai. In 19th century Japan, an American journalist named Christopher (Billy Drago) arrives at a remote island looking for Komomo (Michie), a woman he's in love with that was sold to a brothel by her adoptive family. While there he comes across a disfigured prostitute (Youki Kudoh) that tells him the story of her life. This episode was filmed in Japan by Kadokawa Pictures and was never broadcast unedited due to its ridiculously high BrainBleach quotient.