The Big Bee

Rooftop, 1995. Fax machine hum. Distant drone over a nuclear plant becomes a child's prison. Blackmail demands versus impossible choices. Tsutsumi's thriller recalls the fatalism of early Kore-eda.

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Yukihiko Tsutsumi directed The Big Bee in 2015. See Yukihiko Tsutsumi's full filmography, where to start with Yukihiko Tsutsumi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.

The Big Bee was released in 2015 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 138 minutes.