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One day on his way home, young recluse Takagi (Teruaki Uotani) finds a
kitten and takes it home. The next day, without any explanation, the
kitten has turned into a pretty girl (Yui Kano), but one with cat ears,
who behaves just like a cat. Takagi accepts that and names her Kiki. By
and by he educates Kiki to persuade like an actual human, and she teaches
him to open up. There's one thing though, Takagi seems to more and more
forget his past life. Yuka (Minami Aoyama) is Takagi's ex, and she still
cares about him, especially after a friend has told her about Takagi's
erratic behaviour. So she decides to break into his apartment - but when
he comes home, he doesn't even recognize her, just shouts for Kiki, whom
it becomes more and more obvious only he can see, and who seems to be
gone. Takagi starts to remember, he has caught Yuka shagging one of his
friends, which led to ... what exactly? Yuka forces herself onto Takagi,
forces him to have sex with her, until he ... finds himself in some
netherworld, where he meets Kiki again, who is now an angel and who tells
him he has tried to commit suicide after catching Yuka with another man,
but he's now in a coma and he has the chance to go back. Well, in the
end, Takagi is alive again, and back together with Yuka, and one day they
find a kitten he names Kiki ... I loved the premise of this
film, as a catgirl seems to offer endless possibilities almost by
definition, and for a while the film is pretty funny, if in a very
harmless sort of way. But then writer/director Akioshi Sugiura apparently
saw the urge to say something profound ... and derailed his little movie.
Because you see, as long as the movie was only about a cat in human form,
it could have gone everywhere, but once it was about a recluse refusing to
accept reality but being brought back to the world of the living
(literally), there was only one way to go, and the film became
disappointingly predictable. That's not to say the film is a total
trainwreck, it's graced by a subtle directorial effort at least, and the
cast is pretty likeable - it just never lives up to its initial promise.
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