Alley Cat

A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is snatched up by a comical grungy mechanic (Kenji Furuya). Calling each other by the competing names they gave the cat, Maru and Lily, the odd pair is abruptly sucked into a political conspiracy with Saeko (Yui Ichikawa) and her son at the center. Witnessing another injustice in which the economic and social elite prey on the vulnerable, the two strays set off on the road to redemption, or at least peaceful cat ownership. (Fun fact: in addition to acting together in Alley Cat, Yosuke Kubozuka and Kenji “KJ” Furuya released the single “Soul Ship” in 2017. Kubozuka performs as Manji Line and Furuya in the band Dragon Ash.) -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Cast

Yosuke Kubozuka Maru

Kenji Furuya Lily

Yui Ichikawa Saeko

Ryoma Baba Kengo Hashimoto

Hiroshi Shinagawa Toshiro Tamaki Masaki Miura Michiya Kakizawa Shōhei Hino Yasuo Hashiba Yohta Kawase Naoki Taguchi

Nobu Morimoto

Yutaka Morioka Yoichi Kuramochi

Takuma Okamoto

Yuya Takagawa

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