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Director Kazuhiro Soda observes their coexistence
Tale
A large colony of cats inhabit a Shinto shrine. The residents care for them; others are disturbed by the mess.
Of course, it is undeniable that dogs are superior to cats
The serious programmer, who presented the British premiere of this documentary at the 2024 London Film Festival, uses the phrase "non-human animals" more than once – wokism comes to the animal kingdom! But director Kazuhiro Soda was an attractive man, taking selfies with the audience – which distracted from his unpromising claim that he worked without doing any research…
We see them being fed by well-wishers, being caught to be “fixed”, sharing food with their kittens, etc
But even those who are not cat fans will probably be fascinated by the cats inhabiting a Shinto shrine in a small Japanese coastal town. But it’s not all cat: people are also present in sequences like an endless committee meeting and post-typhoon cleanup.
As a result, can we really say that what we see is accurate?
The problem with making a ‘surveillance film’ of this kind is the small chance that the people with the camera pointed at them will actually behave as they normally would – so how much is the documentary maker changed by the mere fact of their presence? But in its presentation of a slice of Japanese life, the film is worth watching at least once.
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