Hiro Arikawa

We meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at night; and an elderly cat, Kota, hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever.

Nana the cat is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. His beloved owner, Satoru, is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why and Satoru won’t say...