Powell Street Festival and Blim present:
Cat Soup and Mind Game
Saturday October 18 | 7 – 10 PM | $5 – 10 sliding scale
Curated by Yuriko Iga
Cat Soup (Nekojiru) is an award-winning animated short film directed by Tatsuo Sato, inspired by the work of manga artist Nekojiru. The surreal black comedy follows Nyãtta, an anthropomorphic kitten, on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister’s soul.
Mind Game is a Japanese animated feature film based on the comic by Robin Nishi. It was written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa and animated primarily by Studio 4°C. It is unusual among features other than anthology films in utilising a series of disparate visual styles to tell one continuous story. As the director commented in a Japan Times interview, “Instead of telling it serious and straight, I went for a look that was a bit wild and patchy. I think that Japanese animation fans today don’t necessarily demand something that’s so polished. You can throw different styles at them and they can still usually enjoy it.”
