2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalJessica OreckUSA

Jessica Oreck – Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)

from the official website:
Imagine cramming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana – you would be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprisingly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next to godliness.

Yet even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative “can of sardines,” people of all ages still make room for a tiny bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature’s most efficient invention in space, design and function – insects.

Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.

Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan’s captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the “Isle of the Dragonflies.”

896MB | 1h 30mn | 720×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/D9683B5613C0536/BEETLE_QUEEN_CONQUERS_TOKYO.avi
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/682fb9277dc53/BEETLE_QUEEN_CONQUERS_TOKYO.avi

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English [hardcoded]

3 Comments

  1. Following your advice I re-downloaded: working now. Many thanks and sorry troubling you. All the best from Ireland-West.

  2. Thanks for all these treasures, very worth a nitroflare account. Only: this doc is going nowhere from 9’20 – 44’05. Re-up possible?? Thanks and all the best.

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