We’re just a couple days away from the premiere of the Ghost Cat Anzu anime film, a Japanese and French co-production that adapts Takashi Imashiro’s manga of the same name. Following the July 19, 2024 opening in Japan, GKIDS plans to distribute the film in North America sometime this year. Ahead of that, you can see how the film opens in a new video from the TOHO animation channel on YouTube.
Ghost Cat Anzu Opening
The original Ghost Cat Anzu manga by Takashi Imashiro was serialized in Kodansha’s children manga magazine Comic BomBom from August 2006 to November 2007, then compiled in one volume.Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita direct the film, which features rotoscoped animation produced by Shin-Ei Animation (Doraemon) and French studio Miyu Productions. Shinji Imaoka provides the script, Kuno provides the character designs, and Keiichi Suzuki provides the music.The film’s official website describes the story:
During a thunderous downpour.A monk at a temple finds a kitten mewling in a cardboard box. The kitten was named Anzu and was carefully brought up. Strangely, however, it did not die even after 10 or 20 years. After 30 years, it somehow became a ‘ghost cat’ that speaks human language and lives like a human. His means of transport is a moped. He works part-time as a masseuse. He is now 37 years old.After a quarrel between father and son, the monk’s son, who has been missing for a long time, returns with his 11-year-old daughter Karin. However, he has another fight with the monk and leaves her behind. Karin is always a very “good” girl in front of adults. Anzu is asked to look after her and reluctantly does so, but there are signs that things are not going to be straightforward…
Source: TOHO animation channel on YouTube
