Samenvattingen(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 … (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Mikako Ichikawa
Japan
Beste films:
Ima, ai ni jukimasu (2004)
Oto-na-ri (2009)
Megane (2007)
Ken Mitsuishi
Japan
Beste films:
Juríka (2000)
Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)
Love Letter (1995)
Kei Tanaka
Beste films:
Ima, ai ni jukimasu (2004)
Rentaneko (2012)
Tošokan sensó: The Last Misson (2015)
Maho Yamada
Japan
草村礼子
Japan
Beste films:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Bakemono no ko (2015)
Sekai no čúšin de, ai wo sakebu (2004)