This June, it has been three years since we first traveled to Japan to shoot Beetle Queen. My awareness of this fact was heightened when I received a photo from one of the families we spent time with while we were there.
Remember the young boy you see several times throughout the film, first shopping for beetles and then playing with them with his friends? Well, as kids tend to do, he’s growing up!
He’s now ten years old, but just as into bugs as he was three years ago, though now he says he wants to be a killer whale trainer when he grows up.

Yu hunting for butterflies