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‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Review: Made With Rotoscope Techniques, Unusual Anime Plays Like a Sardonic Relative to ‘Spirited Away’
Two directors joined forces to create 'Ghost Can Anzu,' an irreverent fable about a talking cat capable of bridging the human world and the afterlife.
Form and content align in the uniquely conceived and delightfully offbeat supernatural adventure “ Ghost Cat Anzu.” For a movie about a reality where mortals and otherworldly spirits coexist on the same plane, the filmmakers decided to compound the flesh-and-bone realism of live action cinema and animation’s fantastical qualities. These vignettes of time spent living in close proximity to nature fade to the back burner when Tetsuya fails to return, prompting Anzu and Karin to leave the countryside for Tokyo. The jump from quotidian mischief to a full-blown battle with a legion of demons feels slightly disorienting, despite the fact that the narrative establishes the existence of creatures beyond human comprehension from the onset.
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