The Midnight Parasites
寄生虫の一夜
5.1
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Synopsis
Short experimental animation from 1972 by Yoji Kuri.
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Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.0/10
What 6
viewers
settled on.
67% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 3.32 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.8 ptsRecommenders 8.3 · others 1.5
Yes
8.3
No
1.5
Score over time
1.00Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10/10 “That was an awesome animation about the animators nightmares, it was made in the 70s one guy made, excellent animation the backgrounds are all surreal. Seems like nature is telling the guy "watch...”
- 7/10 “This short is weird, to put it simply. There isn't really a story or plot, this is just a ten minute view of a world. And what a world! A distopian landscape of dead trees and corpses inhabited by...”
- 8/10 “The Midnight Parasites is probably the best Yoji Kuri short I've ever seen. His style is typical kind of crude, the equipment and resources available to him were limited, and he didn't have a staff...”
Watch order & related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — The Midnight Parasites begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-4855
A Movie Production
Kuri Jikken Manga Koubou.- Format
- 1 × 9′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 09m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Jan 1972 – Jan 1972
- Source
- Movie
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-4855
- catalog