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U-SA-GUI

U-SA-GUI

Introduction

Tetsuji Kurashige's nightmarish U-SA-GUI (2002) begins by citing a section from Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste, in which the renowned French epicure suggests that stimulating foods, meats in particular, can have an influence on one's dreams. The film depicts a macabre game played by two rabbits and a blindfolded woman. The rabbits face each other over an old-fashioned illustrated board game. When they land on a square, the woman must eat the food indicated in the illustration. If she has chosen correctly, a die pops out of her mouth and lands on the floor giving the rabbits their next move. (Source: Midnight Eye)

Audience ratings

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Audience reviews

6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.

Quaggy

Usagi ga Kowai is a very bizarre piece of avaunt garde short film. There is no defined plot or characters. It's simply a film of bizarre and weird things happening involving a girl and some rabbits. There may be a really abstract message you can pull from this but it's mostly odd visuals and a weird drone throughout the whole thing This short film has a very niche audience who can enjoy it for what it is but it is not particularly special outside of it's odd visuals and background drone. If you enjoy avaunt garde and weird visuals I guess you can watch this. There's some interesting stuff here and it's very short, only being 12 minutes, if you enjoy that kinda thing. In the end it's perfectly fine weird art and not much more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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gabiwave

So, I read the other reviews and even if I'm not going to comment on them specifically (maybe?) I must say that they're not fair, I don't think this short film is a 1/10 nor a 10/10. It has it's appeal and kept me entertained the whole time thinking what bizarre shit was going to happen next. Someone said "It feels like a badly produced project a freshman in art school would make" and that's exactly what it is, if you read the alternative titles it says "Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium" which is a project where they train young animators by making them doing experimental weird films, Story: So, this short film is about a woman's dream (or nightmare?) about two rabbits. It begins with a quote saying that certain foods can have an influence on one's drea…

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snigelrov

I literally joined this site just to write a review about how much I hated this. It feels like a badly produced project a freshman in art school would make. Also the plot was non-existent, but not in a creative way whatsoever. I literally thought "this might be cool if I was on drugs, but I'm not, and it sucks." Don't get me wrong, I typically looove surrealist animations, but this one was just bad. If you want a truly weird animation containing rabbits, watch Alice by Jan Svankmajer. It's stop motion but way more worth your time. To the other user who found enough plot/substance, how? Save your 12 minutes and go watch something actually creepy.

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Sidewinder51

rate of 4(bad) seen via english subtitles Dislike - plot had some flaws. There were quite a few questions raised because of how the movie just places you in what appears to be mid scene of an event. A little more pretext would have greatly been appreciated. Then the movie ends but does it? Up until the very last moment we think it is over but then you find yourself questioning it. No matter how you see it the ending is not exact. It is leaves for opinions. -art was black and white for the most part. -sound. My goodness! that was annoying. You might as well mute your volume for this unless you have a throat/dice fetish. There was nothing really obtained. No vocals. I think it was intentional to make you fear what was to come but my word. Like - I enjoyed the plot. It was scary for me.…

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citricphrenia

Don't watch this if you are suicidal. It might just tip you over the edge However if you like horrible visuals, sound that'll make your ears bleed and no plot whatsoever then I still would not recommend this to you since it is just that horrible. I regret watching this entirely and if I had the power to, I would go back in time and prevent this 'movie' from ever happening, or at least stop my poor, vulnerable, past self from ever watching it. So heed my warning all those in search for a good anime to watch, stay far away from this shit-fest and never return. I would rate this a negative number if MAL would allow me to, which I think it should make a special exception for this 'movie' alone since it is just that bad.

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Farhana_Luba

I ended up having a brain-ache from all the screeching noise. And there's no story to it, just two rabbits and a blindfolded girl dreaming about weird stuff. I'd rather look forward to it if it had dreams including the girl running across the streets naked -_-" Don't watch this. You'll just end up losing your precious 12.55 minutes.

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