When Midori’s mother dies, the little flower girl ends up in a travelling circus, practically as a slave. The horny freaks abuse her, turning her into their Cinderella as well as raping her and making her world a hellish nightmare of deformities. Until a dwarf magician arrives and with his freakish talent for magic takes over the show and the girl. Hiroshi Harada’s dark and unsettling anime is an adaptation of a comic book by the uncontested king of ero-guro manga, Maruo Suehiro. Harada spent five painstaking years penning every single frame of his surrealist nightmare.
The Death Lullaby
Original title:
Nido to mezamenu komoriuta
Czech titile:
Ukolébavka, po které se nevzbudíš
Country and year:
Japan 1985
Director:
Hiroshi Harada
Version:
Japanese with English subtitles / Czech subtitles
Running time:
27 minutes
Screening format:
DVD
The screening will open with the director’s early avant-garde short anime about a bizarre and destructive revenge of a bullied boy, who has a rather curious dental handicap.
