Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi

June, 1983.

The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.

By day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi.

Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside.

While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, 'something' happens.

For the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing.

This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project.

A murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re-enacted year after year.