Cat Soup
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| Cat Soup | |
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| ねこぢる草 (Nekojiru-so) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Psychological |
| OVA | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Sato |
| Studio | J.C.STAFF |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Released | 2001 |
| Runtime | 34 minutes |
Cat Soup (ねこぢる草 Nekojiru-so?) is a Japanese anime OVA produced by J.C. Staff and directed by Tetsuo Sato, originally released in 2001. It spanned 34 minutes, and won numerous awards, such as the "Excellence Prize" in the 5th annual 2001 Media Arts Festival [1] and the "Best Short Film" award at the 2001 Fantasia Film Festival.[2]
The main characters are a family of white kittens, who live just like they were humans. there is no dialogue, except for some rare speech balloons.
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[edit] Plot
Nyaako, the older sister of Nyatta (the lead character) lays very ill in her room. By accident, Nyatta sees his sister leaving the house holding hands with a peculiar purple being, and follows them. It turns out that Nyatta was following Death taking his sister's soul away. Nyatta claims his sister's soul, by pulling one arm while her memories were erased by Death, who held the other arm. Nyaako's soul gets split in two, and her brother runs away with one half. Death sends a clue about a flower they must search in order to retrieve the missing part then walks away with the other half.
Nyatta returns home to find the doctor telling his parents that his sister was dead. Nyatta gets closer with the soul in his arms and puts it back in his sister's body through her nose. Nyaako wakes up braindead but with her body still alive. This is when the quest starts, Nyatta and Nyaako have to travel through the messed up world where humans act like animals, animals act like humans, life is a child's curiosity and death is not the end. It's a surreal dreamscape where everything is possible, with scenes of postmodern concepts of art and design. One scene portrays God as an old man eating up planets. Time and space concepts are also fused within the film when the old man turns gears of a clock and winds it back so everything goes backward in time.
[edit] Trivia
- Cat Soup was made as a dedication to Nekojiru, a famous manga-ka who committed suicide in the 90s. Years after her death, her husband took her old drawings and ideas, and commissioned them to a studio to make them into a movie. [citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ [http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/backnumber/13/sakuhin/nekojiru.html 2001 [5th] Japan Media Arts Festival | Excellence Prize Nekojiru-So]
- ^ Cat Soup (trivia) at Anime News Network
