Neigh Means Yes (1991) User Reviews

The Horse Whisperer.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 7/10 · 10 August 2018]

With having picked up The Last Frankenstein (that I should be watching soon) over X-Mas,I looked for another Japanese Horror to match it up with for a best of 1991 movies poll on ICM. Digging into the outer reaches, HumanoidOfFlesh's comment led to me deciding to find out what neigh really means.

View on the film:

Made on how low can you go film stock, (they even keep the countdown clippings between reels) the cheapness actually adds to director Hisayasu Satô's Pinku,via the graininess heightening the surrealist Horror nightmare atmosphere,panning across a beach with mannequin dolls laying around over the Industrial hum from composer "Wave." Taking inspiration from the Punk film No Wave movement,Satô makes only the outline to the cast be visible, which gives the sex scenes a disembodied appearance. Thankfully showing some restrain on the sleaze, (no intercourse between humans and horses!) the screenplay by Shirô Yumeno wonderfully piles on the weirdness between the arty and the bonkers,becoming very vivid in an extended discussion over loneliness, telepathy and horse poo, as they each try to find the meaning of neigh.

Umagoya no reijô

[RaulFerreiraZem · 4/10 · 28 March 2022]

Probably the worst Sato i've seen so far. I say that even though i can not be sure about if weather i like it or not. Satô's films tend to be a little on the obtuse side. I'm not complaining in fact i think it is one of its charms. However in this one specifically he goes a little overboard in that aspect. I couldn't at all understand what this film was about. Of course the awful VHS quality of the copy i got didn't exactly help but it seemed to me like at least half the film was filmed in almost complete darkness where you could at best see a silhouette and not tell whose silhouette it is. That makes it kind of hard to follow the plot when the film is one hour long and has 6 or 7 characters. Big Satô fan here but this one wasn't for me.

Don't think Director Hisayasu Satõ knew what this was about either!

[Musicianmagic · 4/10 · 14 April 2024]

Not sure if it was the print used to make my DVD or from the original cinematography but most scenes are so dark you can't tell what is happening. In one scene that takes place in three minutes it begins in twilight but bright enough to see everything to 30 seconds later only background building lights can be seen. I guess you can just use your imagination what's happening but then you don't need to watch this movie at all.

Basically the story centers around a woman living by a beach who thinks she can hear her horse. Nothing in that regard is proven. Along comes a man who is recording sounds. Mainly sounds of silence like the sky. Then two men and a woman who are creating art using mannequins. Where it goes from there I am not sure and yes I watched the entire movie. There is an ending to the story but that doesn't make much sense either.

It's a Pink Eiga film so there is nudity and a few sex scenes although it's too dark to see. There is supposed to be the woman manually pleasuring her horse but you need to use your imagination again as you can't see it.

It's just a broken story without any direction. Satõ must have slept thru the filming. Just skip this turkey. You won't miss anything.

Another bestiality pinku from Sato.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 8/10 · 7 October 2007]

Yuu is living with her Ryusei horse on the edge of sea.One day a young researcher and three artists arrive and they disturb Yuu's quasi-telepathic relation with a horse."Staple Girl" is less provocative and scandalous than "Horse Woman Dog",but still offers some unpleasant scenes including the masturbation with a severed horse penis.One again Sato shows the world as the cold,morbid and unhealthy place filled with sexual pleasure and pain.There is a bit of extreme violence and the images of mannequins buried in the sand are strikingly haunting.Sato introduces a topic which will reappear in his most famous and goriest film "Naked Blood" that of the telepathic communication.8 out of 10.