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Director: Hiroshi Harada
Screenplay: Hiroshi Harada
(Voice) Cast: Minako Naka (as
Midori); Norihiko Morishita (as Wonder Masanitsu); Keinosuke Okamoto (as Koijirô
Arashi); Kazuyoshi Hayashi (as Akaza); Yoshifumi Nomura (as Muchisute)
A Night of a Thousand
Horror (Movies) #41
A 1000 Anime
Crossover
Abstract Spectrum:
Grotesque; Psychotronic; Weird
Abstract Rating
(High/Medium/Low/None): Low
Midori is an
infamous work, an animated adaptation of Suehiro
Maruo's ero-guro manga Mr. Arashi's
Amazing Freak Show (1984), where a young girl finds herself trapped as part
of a travelling carnival freak show in nineteen twenties Japan, created by one
man, the former industry animator Hiroshi
Harada who became an underground filmmaker. The result here of years of
hard work is split into two divisive halves. The first is the most
transgressive, responsible for this film's notorious reputation, a variety of
horrifying yet lovingly drawn images of the worst in humanity, mainly still
images with bursts of fluid movement, realistic but with incredibly detailed
colour and exaggerated carnival characters with various bodily deformities and
distinctions.
The bookending experimentation with surreal narration and the second half, when salvation is
available for the heroine, is where Midori crosses into the abstract, a fully
formed short length narrative which becomes more coherent and interesting but
one which is immersed in the experimental style the film from the beginning
has. From the dream sequences to the body horror to scenes such as a character
called Wonder Masanitsu, a dwarf magician with mesmerizing abilities, causing a
mass hallucinatory freak-out on an unsuspecting audience, the animation has a
creepy, unreal tone added to by music by J.
A. Seazer and Hiroshi Harada's expert
craftsmanship as an animator.
Personal Opinion:
For the full review of Midori,
follow the link HERE.
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