Cat Soup

ねこぢる草

Cat Soup follows Nyaata, a kitten whose older sister Nyaako falls gravely ill and slips toward death. When Nyaata drowns by accident and finds himself half in the spirit world, he wrestles half of Nyaako's soul back from the psychopomp Jizō, leaving her alive but hollow-eyed and only partly present. To restore her, the two siblings set off through a wordless, surreal dreamscape. This experimental short, based on Nekojiru's manga, plays out almost entirely without dialogue.