Rabbit in the Moon Trailer. Trailer. Directed by Kenneth Anger. Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Hello, my name is Asuka. Fifty years after World War II, Japanese Americans recall their years in the internment camps of WWII. But Rabbit said, “I do not want to go until daylight, for the Moon has gone down and the forest is very dark.” But his grandmother said, “You must go.” So poor Rabbit, although he was very frightened by what he had seen, set out again for his traps. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns dead. With Claude Revenant, André Soubeyran, Nadine Valence. People call me "Asuka-Senpai". I left this world on March 25th, 2012 and currently live in the Moon. The moon rabbit or moon hare is a mythical figure who lives on the Moon in Far Eastern folklore, based on pareidolia interpretations that identify the dark markings on the near side of the Moon as a rabbit or hare.The folklore originated in China and then spread to other Asian cultures. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine.