Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

I had heard about this previously and it was sort of posed as a documentary about insects in Japan, but it is more about the love by the Japanese of insects.

From what I saw it seems like the Japanese are exploiting insects for their beauty and as an unusual pet, and not, as the director is posing, for its traditional culture of revering insects as part of folklore and nature. Schoolchildren, professional insect sellers, scientists capture insects, and it does not even seem like they care about ecology or destroying habitats, and more about collecting and buying/selling them because they are beautiful, which I find distasteful. Although I often see how the Japanese revere aesthetics and art, this depiction seemed very different to what I know of Japanese culture (which is admittedly very little).

There is also not much in the way of history or narration, letting the visuals and the behavior of the human subjects speak for themselves.