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Interpretation[edit]

An attempt of an interpretation could be added, maybe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Exizt (talk • contribs) 18:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One obvious interpretation is that the whole film is Nyatta's dream while he is drowning. -- Resuna (talk) 02:54, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nekojiru-sou and wiki[edit]

Hi, I'm researching this film and its wiki and I'd like to talk with the contributors of this wiki. Can you please email me? My email is ciscaucasusxabarnama@gmail.com. Thank you; and good night. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.134.252.62 (talk • contribs) 04:32, May 13, 2009

Wikipedians usually prefer to discuss on-wiki. More convenient & transparent. --Gwern (contribs) 18:18 14 May 2009 (GMT)

How can I help with this article? —Erik (talk • contrib) 20:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glassy Soup[edit]

"I first heard about Glassy Ocean not from another fan, but from the director of another artistic short anime. While working at CPM I was able to shoot an interview with Tatsuo Sato, commenting on his film Cat Soup (Nekojiru-so). He mentioned Glassy Ocean as a particular influence on the project, most notably in its sound design, which uses subtle and delicate cues to quietly assemble a mood. Between the dream-like visuals, the warped sense of time and space, and the moody music, it's certainly not hard to see similarities between the two films. But where Cat Soup goes for the shock of combining the cute with the incredibly disturbing, Glassy Ocean is going for sense of relaxed calm."

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2009-06-25/glassy-ocean --Gwern (contribs) 13:48 25 June 2009 (GMT)

Manga Impact[edit]

Manga Impact: The World of Japanese Animation, 6 December 2010, ISBN 978-0714857411; pg 30

Cat Soup was inspired by the 1998 manga Nekojiru Udon created by Nekojiru (the pseudonym of Hashiguchi Chiyomi) who committed suicide later the same year. The first anime version was a mini-series of twenty-seven two-minute episodes broadcast on Asahi Television in 1999, and in 2001 producer Otsuki Toshimichi commissioned director Sato Tatsuo to make a thirty-minute OAV, which won international acclaim, the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival and the prize for Best Animated Short at the Fantasia Festival.
The story, taken from Nekojiru's imaginary world, follows two anthropomorphic cats, Nyatta and Nyako. Nyako dies of an illness, but her little brother manages to recapture half her soul and restores her to a semblance of life. Determined to recover the other half, Nyatta undertakes a journey studded with surreal adventures, during which he has to deal with various divine entities and at last manages to restore his sister's spirit. Sato, made famous as director of the science-fiction series Senkan Nadeshiko (Martian Successor Nadesico, 1996), adopts a non-realist style in this surreal film, depicting a disturbing and cruel imaginary world where events bordering on violence are transformed by his visionary interpretation. The whole anime is dominated by the idea of the transformation of matter: mechanical insects, elephants made of water and scenes that change on the mere whim of the god of the moment. Flooded lands are succeeded by petrified deserts, blending reality and unbridled imagination as if in a dream. Combining stylized figures (the cats) with more outlandish characters, Cat Soup recalls the art of great western animators such as Bill Plympton, although the grotesque element is more contained here. There is no dialogue beyond a few speech bubbles, reaffirming the film's printed origins.
D.D.G. [David Di Giorgio]

--Gwern (contribs) 19:50 23 December 2011 (GMT)

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