Ghost Cat Anzu

PG TBC

One rainy day, a temple's chief priest finds a kitten crying inside a cardboard box. He names the cat Anzu and raises it with care, but strangely enough, it does not die, even after 20 years. By the time 30 years have passed, it turns into a creature that speaks human language and lives like a human.

Anzu, now 37 years old, travels around on a moped and works part-time as a masseuse. One day, the head priest's son, a shifty widower with a huge debt to some loan sharks, returns to the temple with his 11-year-old daughter Karin. 

Karin, already exasperated by her father’s absence and pining for her departed mother, isn’t all that impressed with the oafish, oversized ginger cat. Together, they make a day trip to Tokyo to visit the grave of Karin’s mother, but things get entirely out of control when a detour to hell, by way of an out-of-service toilet, invokes the wrath of a legion of infernal demons.

Screening as part of The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025.