Usagi ga Kowai
English title: U-SA-GUI
Japanese title: 兎ガ怕イ
Alternative titles: Usagui, Thinking and Drawing: Nihon no Shinseiki Art Animation, Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium
Type: Movie
Source: Original
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: 2002
Duration: 12 min
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Genres: Avant Garde, Horror, Suspense
Themes: High Stakes Game, Strategy Game

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)