Japanese Reductionism

It appears to me that the Japanese culture naturally tends toward reducing everything to its atomic components. Here in the video below, they have given themselves the challenge of creating an animation out of 10 lines. Each stick represents a person with its own voice-over, and they work as a team (very Japanese). A fly comes into the scene and they try to figure out how to kill it. One stick comes up with the idea of becoming a fly swatter. Another comes up with the idea of spray (it runs out). Then a spider. Then finally a chameleon. The first stick complains that he does not want to be the tongue to catch the fly, so he moves to the tail end. But the fly ends up landing on the tail. They then decides to sever the tail and leave. The stick who was left behind complains that, unlike other types of lizard, chameleon’s tail should not fall off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6_P9uE-y0