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.
2018年から2020年に放送されていたアニメ「ゲゲゲの鬼太郎」第6期の映画化作品にあたる。「鬼太郎誕生 ゲゲゲの謎」のタイトルで、鬼太郎の誕生に隠された謎が描かれる。