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French-Japanese Film Ghost Cat Anzu's Video Reveals New Cast Member Ikue Ōtani

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Film opens in Japan on July 19

Ikue Ōtani will voice the forest fairies Pi-Pi-chan in the film. The characters appear in the new video.

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Image via Ghost Cat Anzu's X/Twitter
The film will open in Japan on July 19.

The film stars:

Shōhei Uno also contribute voices.

Cast also acted as the characters in footage that served as a reference for animating the characters, with their spoken lines during the filming of their movements also being used in the film.

Yukie Nakauchi are the animation directors, and Keiichi Suzuki is composing the music.

A.S.A.B) performs the theme song "Matatabi."

The film screened as a work-in-progress at the Annecy Animation Festival in June 2023. The Paris-based acquired the North American rights to the film.

Miyu Productions describes the film's story:

Karin, 11 years old, is abandoned by her father at her grandfather's house, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather asks Anzu, his jovial and helpful although rather capricious ghost cat, to look after her. The meeting of their strong characters causes sparks, at least at the beginning…

Bakeneko Anzu-chan manga in 2007.

Sources: TOHO animation's YouTube channel, Oricon News


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