Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiancé, but one day she
leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her
friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment.
Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both
always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.
"Most twenty-year-old Japanese women feel deep anxiety about the
uncertainty of the future. This is exactly the state of mind I wanted to
show with the people in my film. Now I'm a happy person, even if,
obviously, when I was twenty I suffered the same depression Yoko and
Suzu are suffering from." (Namo Iguchi)
Biography
film director
Nami Iguchi
Iguchi Nami (Tokyo, 1967) studied cinema at the Image Forum Film School. Then she worked as sound assistant for many independent films, including the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Yaguchi Shinobu. In 2001 she directed her first short film Inu-neko, and the film won several awards in Japan. The Cat Leaves Home is her first feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Inu-neko (cm, 2001), The Cat Leaves Home (2004).