Wagahai wa neko de aru

1936
1h 27min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThis movie is adapted from well-known 1905-1906 novel from Natsume Sôseki, a classic of Japanese literature, which describes the life of a teacher, his family and neighbors, in a Japanese mi... Tout lireThis movie is adapted from well-known 1905-1906 novel from Natsume Sôseki, a classic of Japanese literature, which describes the life of a teacher, his family and neighbors, in a Japanese middle-class town of the Meiji Era, as viewed by the family cat.This movie is adapted from well-known 1905-1906 novel from Natsume Sôseki, a classic of Japanese literature, which describes the life of a teacher, his family and neighbors, in a Japanese middle-class town of the Meiji Era, as viewed by the family cat.

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- Kajirô Yamamoto
Scénario
- Masaru Kobayashi
- Sôseki Natsume
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Réalisation
- Kajirô Yamamoto
Scénario
- Masaru Kobayashi
- Sôseki Natsume
Casting principal

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The film changes the novel's pessimistic ending. In the film, Sneaze does not have dyspepsia. The novel ends with the cat's death, while at the end of the film, the family erects a grave for the cat with a poignant epitaph.

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Version of Je suis un chat (1975)

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What Has This Got To do With A Cat?

A small cat wanders into a household and is the witness to the snobbery and preoccupations of a teacher's household and its interactions with the nouveau riche neighbors.

My notes indicate this was based on a popular novel by Soseki Natsume. In the movie, the cat is the inadvertent and uncomprehending observer of the petty rivalries of the neighborhood. Unfortunately for me, this results in a rather incoherent movie, in no small part because I am unfamiliar with the societal assumptions of the era. Everyone seems a bit self-obsessed, despite occasional references to the First World War; the cat turns up at odd moments on screen, and at other times, it offers its thoughts on issues that have nothing to do with the human drama going on; whether this is a statement of the unimportance of such things -- from a cat's viewpoint anyway -- seems unclear. The result is rambling and a bit dull.