The Man Behind the Scissors (ハサミ男, Hasami Otoko) is a 2005 film directed by Japanese director Toshiharu Ikeda.
The film opens with a female high school student meeting a man and woman in a remote location.
The same couple follow another student who they have picked as their next target, but before they can kill her she is joined by an older man.
It emerges that the female murderer has a split personality, and the man she is seen with is actually a vision of her dead father caused by her guilt over his suicide when she was younger.
The real scissors murderer has a final vision of her father, in which he tells her that he always loved her and she was not to blame for his death.