Hiroe Sawabe

The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara's autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who's able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto). (asiancinematic.com)