Ari no mama ge itai
LITTLE CHAMPIONS
- Release Date
- July, 11th, 2015
- Running Time
- 80 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DCP
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English (HDCAM)
[ Directed by ]
[ Staff ]
- KURIBAYASHI Satoshi ── Cinematography
- KANNO Yugo ── Music
- FUKUYAMA Masaharu ── Theme Song
- DAIGO ── Narration
- YOSHIDA Yoh ── Narration
- SUGISAKI Hana ── Narration
[ Production Company ]
Kinoshita Group, TBS Television, TBS VISION, TOEI VIDEO, Mainichi Newspapers, TBS Radio & Communications
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
TOEI
[ Story ]
A nature documentary on the ecology of the over 50 variety of insects inhabiting Japan taken from an ant's point of view. Kuribayashi Satoshi, an internationally recognized expert in insect photography, takes on cinematography duties and with a specially modified endoscope camera for extreme close-ups, reveals the unknown struggle for survival of insects. A rhinoceros beetle, a stag beetle, and a hornet's deadly struggle over sap, the instant a praying mantis brings down a grasshopper with its sharp sickles, and a band of ants assaulting prey much bigger than themselves are among presented.
[ Official Site ]
[ Contact (International) ]
TOEI COMPANY, LTD.
International Sales & Acquisitions
3-2-17 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8108
tel: +81 3 3535 7621
fax: +81 3 3535 7622
E-mail: international@toei.co.jp
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