Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
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- Director: Jessica Oreck
- Genre(s): Documentary
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91The Japanese love affair with insects takes many forms, but most of them are, by Western standards, exotic. To Oreck's credit, she doesn't attempt to play down the exoticism by pretending to go native.
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There's enough wisdom in this appropriately compact film to suggest avenues of further, though likely not as wondrous, inquiry.
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80By movie’s end, you see flocks of umbrella-adorned commuters in a different light; and what’s often viewed as Japanese humility becomes a doorway to something huge and eternal. Bring the kids.
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A meditative piece that is by turns hypnotically beautiful and painfully slow. It's the kind of film perhaps best appreciated in smaller doses, in the same way bench rest can help sustain a tiring museum visit.
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