Dead Sushi
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
Our read · Dead Sushi (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · sci-fi · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Dead Sushi
What watching it is actually like.
“You want absurd over-the-top Japanese splatter with killer sushi and nudity.”
Skip it tonight — You want serious horror or dislike extreme gore and sexual content.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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