Man, everybody really does want to be a cat

A WHISKER AWAY

Nakitai Watashi na Neko wa Koburo

2020

Directed by Junichi Sato and Tomotaka Shibayama

Written by Mari Okada

Spoiler alert: moderate

Yo' mama so old I told her to act her age, so she died

MAQUIA: WHEN THE PROMISED FLOWER BLOOMS

Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarō

Conceptually rich, yet insubstantial and entirely unsatisfying, Maquia takes a great idea and runs it into the ground, then under the ground, then it ends, too short to make any sense out of the world it's created, too long and too repetitive to not get really, painfully dull.

2018

Written and directed by Mari Okada

Spoiler alert: moderate