Alley Cat

Alley Cat (2017)

ComedyCrimeDrama

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

Director: Hideo Sakaki
Writer: Tadashi Shimizu

Casts

	Yosuke Kubozuka as Maru
	Kenji Furuya as Lily
	Yui Ichikawa as Saeko
	Ryoma Baba as Kengo Hashimoto
	Hiroshi Shinagawa as Toshiro Tamaki
	Masaki Miura as Michiya Kakizawa
	Shōhei Hino as Yasuo Hashiba
	Yohta Kawase as Naoki Taguchi
	Nobu Morimoto as
	Yutaka Morioka as Yoichi Kuramochi
	Takuma Okamoto as
	Yuya Takagawa as
	Hiroko Terada as keiko ono
	Tokuhisa Yamashita as
	Elisa Yanagi as Mizuki Tada

Crew