The Midnight Parasites is a brief psychedelic animation directed by Yoji Kuri. This splendidly unusual 9-minute movie, created in 1972, has been considered a precursor to René Laloux’s acclaimed 1973 animation, Implausible Planet. The Midnight Parasites takes place in a desolate, alien panorama the place many unusual beings work together. A number of the creatures are variety and others are harmful. Watching it seems like peeking into Kuri’s thoughts and watching an exquisite and scary fever dream. The originality and uncooked creativity on this animation is awe-inspiring. 

“A number one determine inside the panorama of impartial animation in Japan, Kuri’s work performed an necessary function in shaping the distinctive sensibilities of Japanese animation within the Sixties. Usually recognised because the chief of the extremely influential artist collective known as the ‘Animation Affiliation of Three’, Kuri’s strategy to animation performed a radical examination of the inventive frameworks by way of which modern animators have been viewing the world round them.”