Working backwards through history, "Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" explores the mystery of the development of Japan's love affair with bugs. Using insects like an anthropologist's toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners' perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.... (Full plot summary below)
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Working backwards through history, "Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" explores the mystery of the development of Japan's love affair with bugs. Using insects like an anthropologist's toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners' perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.
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| New York TimesMike HaleThe diverting Beetle Queen, like “Lost in Translation” or Takashi Murakami’s art, says less about Japan than it does about America’s continuing fascination with modern Japanese culture. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisA parade of loosely, lyrically related scenes and images imbues the film with a wonder worthy of its subjects. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubA documentary that is often told in adages, riddles and poetry. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongAn oddball documentary that strives to capture the essence of an entire culture through one preoccupation: insects. |
| Total FilmTom DawsonThere's a hypnotic quality to its flow of images, allowing the viewer to see the insect world anew. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmIt flies like a moth around its subject suggesting, sometimes playfully and occasionally ponderously, that we humans are as much like bugs as the creepy-crawlies themselves. |
| Filmcritic.comChris CabinTechnically ambitious, Beetle Queen succeeds where a recent armada of embarrassingly sentimental, hugely liberal eco-docs have failed |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfBy 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. |
| Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyAn entomologist's delight, Jessica Oreck's movie about Japan's insect mania is worth watching even if you're repulsed by creepy-crawlers. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA delightfully weird, if occasionally too arty, documentary as darting in its structure as a dragonfly's flight. |
