A cute bunny cartoon violently unravels into 15 minutes of beautiful nightmare fuel.
The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.
Direction
Kurosaka's unhinged visual storytelling breaks every rule.
Sound
Sound design that weaponizes cute noises into dread.
Director
Keita Kurosaka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kurosaka was part of Japan's '80s experimental animation underground, where artists used cute aesthetics to smuggle subversive political commentary past censors.
The worm's transformation sequence took six months to animate by hand; Kurosaka reportedly threw out three completed versions for being 'too comprehensible.'
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