Cicada

 Jumpei is surrounded by kids. He’s a schoolteacher as well as the uncle of a precocious nine-year-old. And then there are the adults in his life who haven’t quite grown up themselves, including his rock-n-rolling girlfriend and gambling-addict brother-in-law. So when Jumpei finds out he can’t have children he takes the opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already encircle him every day. A professor at LA’s Biola University, director Yamada took his students to Japan to produce this soft-stepping comedy that combines colorful characterizations with the gentle moods of social discovery found in much Japanese cinema.