Teaser For 'Rent-a-Cat'

 

The teaser trailer has been released for 'Rent-a-Cat' (AKA 'Rentaneko'), a new Japanese drama written and directed by Naoko Ogigami ('Toilet'). The film focuses around a strange woman, played by Mikako Ichikawa, who helps lonely people fill the emptiness in their hearts by renting out cats.

Synopsis

Sayoko rents out cats. Every day she walks along the banks of the river towing her animals in a little handcart, with a parasol to shade her against the heat and a megaphone over her mouth: ‘Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?’ A wonderful idea, thinks one old lady, for if I were to buy a cat at my age she would certainly outlive me... Delighted to, intones a father, for a cat won’t mind if I smell like an old man... Oh, yes, chimes in an employee at a car rental company, I really am all alone... Sayoko’s cat rental helps lonely people fill the emptiness in their hearts. But Sayoko too is lonely; ever since her grandmother’s death she has lived with the cats in an overgrown haven in the midst of the big city where all she hears – apart from the cats meowing – are her eccentric neighbour’s insults. One day, a young man turns up from Sayoko’s past. He follows her home and all at once Sayoko’s life seems to fall apart...

'Rent-a-Cat' co-stars Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Maho Yamada, Kei Tanaka, and Katsuya Kobayashi. The film is due for release across Japan in May 2012.

 

 

 

Source: Film Smash

Posted February 02, 2012