. . . a naive Japanese first-grader's fantasy tale that won a so-called "Imagination Day" award in 2001. Viewers will guess that the prize to this young tyke consisted of a box of art supplies, with which the lucky youngster created the final cartoon product. Without giving away any actual details of any plot crammed into a piece of film only 4:41 in length, suffice it to say that the characters share an environmental concern. Viewers who have witnessed how Japan, alone among wealthy nations, goes out of its way to slaughter endangered creatures such as dolphins and whales will find that slant on the part of the ill-informed toddler to be the height of irony. Furthermore, residents of America's West coast may get apoplectic when they contrast this fiction with the truth of the recent tidal wave of radioactive debris contaminating their shores from the poorly engineered exploding Japanese nuclear reactors.
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