After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.
Direction
Harada single-handedly animated 5000+ cels over five years.
Production
No studio, no budget, just one man's apartment and obsession.
Practical Effects
Rotoscoped faces give uncanny realism to impossible suffering.
Director
Hiroshi Harada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hiroshi Harada destroyed the original negatives in 2006, making existing prints extremely rare. The film was effectively lost media until underground preservation efforts.
Based on Suehiro Maruo's ero-guro manga, the film strips away Maruo's aesthetic fetishism to expose raw economic desperation—Harada's Midori suffers less erotically, more existentially.
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