Japanese singer-songwriter Chiaki Sato has released a lyric video for her latest digital single song “Matatabi” on her official YouTube channel. The lyrical tune was newly written as the theme song for the anime film Ghost Cat Anzu (Bakeneko Anzu-chan in Japan), and the clip features footage from the film.Matatabi (Silvervine) is a plant in the Kiwifruit family, which produces an oil that cats are naturally attracted to. And the word can also mean “a gambler’s walking journey” in Japanese.
Chiaki Sato “Matatabi” Lyric Video
Sato formed the rock band Kinoko Teikoku with her college classmates in September 2007, and the band made its major label debut in April 2015. The band went on hiatus in 2019, but she has continued her activities as a solo singer.Her comments on “Matatabi” in the YouTube description reads: “I think everyone has memories of ‘that summer.’ The sounds of festivals, tepid ramune, and street rain. In ‘Ghost Cat Anzu,’ everyday life and the mysterious world are side by side, it is just like a midsummer night’s dream I had when I was a child.The theme song ‘Matatabi’ is a song that brings back memories of ‘that summer’ in each of our hearts. To all the people who live their lives despite the pain they are going through. May your life be a wonderful journey.””MatatabI” released digitally on July 20 and is now available on digital services for streaming and download.
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Chiaki Sato artist photo
The anime feature film adaptation of Takashi Imashiro’s Ghost Cat Anzu manga is co-produced by Japanese animation studio Shin-Ei Animation (Doraemon) and French studio Miyu Production, and is co-directed by Atsuhiro Yamashita — whose recent work is a live-action film adaptation of Yama Wayama’s Karaoke Iko! comedy manga — and Yoko Kuno — who worked on the 2015 film The Case of Hana & Alice as rotoscope director.The film debuted in theaters across Japan on July 19, 2024. GKIDS, who executive produced the film, will release the film in North American theatres later this year.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: Chiaki Sato official YouTube channel© 2024 HoriPro Inc.
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