A 66-year-old cicada speaks across nuclear disaster and asks the question Japan has been avoiding since Hiroshima. The film doesn't explain itself; it trusts you to know what 663114 means, and that gamble makes it hit harder. Ten minutes of sound design and metaphor that costs nothing to watch and everything to sit through.
A cicada aged 66 speaks directly to the viewer in this brief fantasy film by Hirabayashi Isamu. Over one short monologue, the insect links the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with the Fukushima disaster and asks a basic question about what lies ahead for the Earth. The title itself is a code: 66 counts the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, 3/11 marks the day of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and 4 stands for the number of Fukushima Daiichi reactors releasing radiation. The film received the Noburou Oofuji Award at the Mainichi Film Awards in February 2012.
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