2024 · animation · fantasy · comedy
Ghost Cat Anzu
Directed by Yoko Kuno1h 34m2024
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.
Our read: Ghost Cat Anzu (2024) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · fantasy · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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