Year: 2004
Duration: 94'


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).

TFF

prizes

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION 2004

Jury Special Award

FIPRESCI AWARD 2004

Feature Film Competition: Best Film

HOLDEN AWARD 2004

Special Mention

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