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‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Filmmakers Discuss Balancing Grief, Humor And Unique Animation To Create A Heartwarming Tale


'Ghost Cat Anzu' filmmakers and screenwriter sit down with Deadline to talk about the process of making the popular Japanese manga turned anime.

Co-directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and Yōko Kuno and written by Shinji Imaoka, based on Takashi Imashiro’s manga of the same name, Ghost Cat Anzu centers around a young girl named Karin (Noa Gotō) who is left in the care of her grandfather when her father abandons her to fix his gambling debts. Their budding-heads relationship leads to a series of hijinks as they encounter other quirky spirits in their rural town who seek to help Karin find her mother in the afterlife. But then the French side of the production, they read it and were like, “Wait, Karin’s going to go home with this good-for-nothing piece of shit dad?

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