Film
Rent-a-Cat
- Director
- Naoko Ogigami
- Certificate
- Over 18s
- Running Time
- 110 mins
Thirtysomething Sayoko (Mikako Ichikawa) is something of a cat magnet. Before long, her home is full of the critters. So she hits on the idea of renting them out to lonely folks whose lives could be improved by feline company. But – guess what? – Sayoko herself is lonelier than any of them, because she struggles to make human contact.
Renting out cats might not be a terribly good idea in practice, but it makes for a suitably quirky comedy. And there’s no doubting director Naoko Ogigami‘s enthusiasm for the furballs, as she includes a cat in at least one scene in every film she’s made.
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