In Japan, where space and ergonomic design are prized above all else, it is only fitting that its people would become captivated by nature’s most efficient invention in space, design and function – the insect. Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan’s captivation with insects. Opening in modern-day Tokyo, where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000, the film slips back to the
early 1800s to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of literature and art. For more information, see the film website. 
