Alley Cat
アリーキャット
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
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Cast
Nobu Morimoto
Yohta Kawase
as Naoki Taguchi
Tokuhisa Yamashita
Elisa Yanagi
as Mizuki Tada
Yutaka Morioka
as Yoichi Kuramochi
Yuya Takagawa
Ryoma Baba
as Kengo Hashimoto
Shōhei Hino
as Yasuo Hashiba
Yosuke Kubozuka
as Maru
Yui Ichikawa
as Saeko
Hiroshi Shinagawa
as Toshiro Tamaki
Masaki Miura
as Michiya Kakizawa
