This candy coloured nightmare rocked audiences upon its release and catapulted maker Suzan Pitt to the front ranks of indie animation. Stunning cel animation propels its blank-faced protagonist into the world of the phallus, rendered here as a field of asparagus, which she deep throats, excretes and flushes away...The film's stunning set piece occurs before a claymation audience who gape as the artist opens her Medusa's box to release rare wonders. A moving meditation on art and the cost of reproduction, Asparagus remains, twenty-five years after its release, a benchmark of single frame intensity.
经营公共浴池幸之汤的幸野家被迫歇业,因为男主人一浩(小田切让 饰)在一年前突然下落不明。他的妻子双叶(宫泽理惠 饰)任劳任怨,独自支撑着家里的大小事务,然而渐渐感到力不从心,女儿安澄(杉咲花 饰)在学校内备受欺凌,心情抑郁。经过医生检查,双叶已经到了癌症晚期,上天留给她的时间极其有限。双叶收起泪水,通过私家侦探找回了曾和其他女人同居的丈夫以及一浩的另一个女儿。她鼓励安澄坚强面对学校的磨难,以饱满的精神面对命运加诸于他们身上的一切。双叶竭尽全力为家人送去最后的温暖……宫泽理惠凭借精彩的演出赢得2017年第40届日本电影学院奖最佳女主角奖。