Rent-a-Cat 2012 123movies

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Plot: A single woman runs an unconventional service that rents housecats to lonely people.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 1,983
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	N/A Votes: 34 Popularity: 8 | TMDB

Reviews:

Nice recovery after Toilet
Some directors keep making the same movie over and over again. This seems to be the case with Ogigami Naoko. I happen to like the movies she makes, so when a new one is out, I try to see it. It started with one of my favorite dorama series Suika. When I noticed that most of the cast from Suika was present in Megane, I had to check that one out. It turned out to be a wonderfully relaxed and quirky movie with subtle humor. There was no big climax. Just life’s little developments. The subtropical Ryukyu Islands seemed quite an exotic place for Japanese city slickers. Kamome Diner had much of the same feel to it. Finland seems quite an exotic place for Japanese. It’s tough adjusting, but worth it if you don’t give up. Rent a Neko has the same wonderfully relaxed feel to it. It was not an exotic place this time, but an eccentric person called Sayoko. She’s a bit of a slacker trying to find her own way in society by renting out cats on her own terms. That way she helps people to find some solace in life. Ichikawa Mikako is utterly convincing in this role. It’s great to see her play the lead for once. She doesn’t do too much, but has some very funny faces that make me burst out in laughter. Best part for me was her dream with Japon Rent a neko. “Master Utamaru is not class C!” I really love the repetition in the story and then the slow development. In the end it was all about loneliness and adjustment, or lack of adjustment. Just as in Ms. Ogigami’s other movies. I’m not mentioning Toilet.

great idea, disappointing result
Naoko Ogigami used to be one of my favorite directors. Her films had a unique mix of quirkiness combined with reminiscent slow-motion, as a blend of humor emerging from deliberately simplistic mimics recalling Kaurismäki. Yet as in her last English-language feature ‘Toilet’, ‘Rentacat’ fails to recreate the atmosphere of her earlier masterpieces ‘Glasses’, ‘Kamome Diner’ and ‘Barber Yoshino’ because it’s lacking two key ingredients of their recipe: the actresses Satomi Kobayashi and Masako Motai, who inter-played brilliantly in her earlier films. Masako Motai appears to be Ogigami’s ‘muse’: in ‘Toilet’, her brief, non-verbal scenes were about the only enjoyable aspect of an otherwise unconvincing family dramedy. Here, she’s missing altogether for the first time, and Mikako Ichikawa’s character never arrives at making any similar impression of genuine eccentricity. Instead, she plays the lonely girl Sayoko, whose scent attracts an ever-increasing number of cats, but repels people, in a straight-faced fashion, ignoring the ironic possibilities of such a character. As a result, ‘Rentacat’ comes across as an unconvincing character study, with a few comedy elements such as a cross-dressing, mean-spirited neighbor and a repetition of the story’s cycle, which to this viewer is rather annoying than entertaining. Let’s hope Ogigami revives her collaboration with Motai and Kobayashi in her next feature, as she apparently cannot do without them.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Naoko Ogigami
Writer Naoko Ogigami
Actors Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi
Country Japan
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

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Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Printed Film Format HDCAM