Cicada
| Year | 2014 |
| Starring | Hiroko Wada, Hitomi Takimoto, Junpei Yasui, Masayuki Yui, Yugo Saso |
| Director(s) | Dean Yamada |
| Genre(s) | Narrative Feature |
| Runtime | 100 min |
| Producer(s) | Dani Light, Matthew Little, Rachel van der Merwe, Showgo Ookawa, Yu Shibuya |
| Writer(s) | Yu Shibuya |
Cicadas live underground until their final stage of adulthood. Then they surface, attach themselves to tree bark, shed their skin and fly away, leaving behind their exoskeleton still clinging fully intact to the tree.
Much like the cicada, Jumpei, a mild-mannered schoolteacher, is sheltered. Introverted almost to a fault, Jumpei has finally found a woman he is ready to marry. Ever wary and careful, Jumpei decides to take a series of premarital tests and finds out that he is infertile. Devastated, he keeps the news from his girlfriend.
In the meantime, Jumpei’s nine-year-old nephew is being bullied in school, and his distraught mother and clueless father are at their wits’ end. Jumpei is enlisted in helping out the family. While Jumpei’s prospects of having a family of his own seem to be non-existent, despite attempting several alternative cures, he is forced into his sister’s dysfunctional family life, and what transpires is a series of comical and heartbreaking events.