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Synopsis
In Tetsuji Kurashige's unnerving 2002 film U-SA-GUI, the story begins with a quotation from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise The Physiology of Taste, in which the celebrated French gourmand asserts that certain dishes, particularly meats, can shape one's dreams. The film then shifts to a grim and unsettling game played by two rabbits and a woman whose eyes are covered. Positioned opposite each other at an elaborately decorated antique board, the rabbits direct the woman to consume the food shown whenever the piece lands on a designated space. If she picks correctly, a die emerges from her mouth and falls to the floor, determining the rabbits' subsequent move on the board.