If you loved Close-Knit, try Rent-a-Cat
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Both films are directed by Naoko Ogigami, and they both carry the bittersweet, cozy, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Close-Knit, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Rent-a-Cat is
A Tokyo entrepreneur keeps her business afloat by lending cats to the elderly until an ex-boyfriend’s reappearance complicates her feline-mediated social life. Her awkwardly pleasing solution involves fewer claws and more compromise. It’s charming in ways that won’t require a follow-up.
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