Synopsis
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
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Cast
- Iesha CostonMissy
- Oumi ZumiKenneth
- David FirthRoyal / Roach Man
- George ClintonDoctor Clinton
- Byron BowersSmoking Roach
- Zack FoxManuel
- Anders HolmTeacher
- Tim HeideckerPhil
- Hannibal BuressKazo (voice)
- Donnell RawlingsMazu (voice)
Recommendations
- 91
Consequence
Kuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking. - 90
Village Voice
Kuso is an astounding feat of animation, humor, and practical effects. - 70
The Verge
“It’s the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era” has become trite, so I’ll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit. But that can be comfortingly frank when it feels like the world is on fire, but we’re all just going to smile anyway. - 67
The Film Stage
Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Kuso may often feel unproductively loud, and monotonous, but it is a head-scratcher worth contending with. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Kuso won’t be for everybody. It’s gross, it’s repetitive, and if it has a point, it’s hard to discern. But it’s not artless. Every densely layered image of oozing pus and gassy orifices is as imaginatively rendered as it is disgusting. - 42
The Playlist
If nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother. - 40
The Guardian
If the film wasn’t so cheekily self-aware it might be literally unbearable, but every so often it references its own grotesquerie.
