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‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Review: Innovation Meets Narrative Struggle In Animated Feature – Cannes Film Festival


Read a Cannes Film Festival review of 'Ghost Cat Anzu,' a Japanese-French co-production involving a 6-foot talking cat that screened at the Cannes Film Festival

However, it’s also bad because Shinji Imaoka’s script meanders for nearly an hour before reaching the film’s true core, demanding a lot of patience from the viewer without providing much substance in return. The story begins with Karin (voiced by Noa Goto) and her father Tetsuya (Munetaka Aoki) arriving at the Sousei-Ji temple, where her widowed grandfather resides. Left angry and frustrated, Karin soon discovers the temple’s oddities, including Anzu (Mirai Moriyama), a bipedal ghost cat who drives a moped and works as the town masseuse.

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