Original Title: 100 mankai ikita neko

Director: Kotani Tadasuke

Year of Release: 2012

Duration: 91'

Cast:

Makiko Watanabe

Director: Tadasuke Kotani

Producer: Kazuo Osawa, Shigeki Kinoshita, Shuuichi Kase

Cinematographer: Tadasuke Kotani

Editor: Kiyoshi Tsujii

Composer: Cornelius

Participant: Feng Yan, Makiko Watanabe

Subject: Yoko Sano

Genre:

Docudrama, Documentary, Drama

The Cat That Lived a Million Timesis an illustrated story that almost immediately became a reference work in the history of Japanese children’s literature at the time of its publication in the 1970s. Like many other Japanese children in the last three decades, director Tadasuke Kotani learned from his mother voice about this text, which orbits around concepts like death, love, loneliness, and reincarnation. That’s why it is neither fortuitous nor capricious that this documentary would be built on the basis of interpretations different mothers have of the book, together with a long and moving interview with Yoko Sano, the author. Animated with a lyricism and melancholy that are hard to ignore, the documentaryThe Cat That Lived a Million Timesis a trip that leads us from memories to life, from life to death, and from death, unyieldingly, to oblivion.

Synopsis

A cat which lived a million lives without ever falling in love, until one day it meets a white female cat. Readers are enchanted by this story of life and death. It also shows the author’s voyage tothe places where she lived and images of her best-known book show us the life of the author, from her childhood in Beijing, to the period she passed between Milan and Berlin, all the way to her present days in Tokyo.

Date: January 11, 2014 (17:30)

Venue: UCCA Art Cinema (尤伦斯当代艺术中心-UCCA艺术影院)

Admission: 20 RMB

Tel: 86 10 57800200

Add: 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区