Plots(1)
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 … (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Mikako Ichikawa
Japan
Best movies:
Be with You (2004)
Romantic Prelude (2009)
Glasses (2007)
Ken Mitsuishi
Japan
Best movies:
Eureka (2000)
I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Love Letter (1995)
Kei Tanaka
Best movies:
Be with You (2004)
Rent-a-Cat (2012)
Library Wars - The Last Mission (2015)
Maho Yamada
Japan
Best movies:
Rent-a-Cat (2012)
Love Strikes! (2011)
Hard Days (2023)
草村礼子
Japan
Best movies:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (2004)