Yoko (played by Miyuki Ichikawa), who is beautiful and kind but has a somewhat strange behavior and personality, lives alone with a group of cute cats[Expand All]
Yoko (played by Miyuki Ichikawa), who is beautiful and kind but has a somewhat strange behavior and personality, lives alone with a group of cute cats in an old house in the suburbs. She seems to have a natural charm that makes cats like her, and just like her grandmother who passed away two years ago, she is especially fond of these lovely little creatures. The carefree little Yoko, every day she loads her cats in a small trailer and walks along the riverbank, singing her unique "Rental cat" call. During this process, she successively met the well-off but lonely old woman, Shuko Yoshida (played by Reiko Kusamura), the middle-aged man, Goro Yoshida (played by Ken Mitsuishi), who had been working alone in Tokyo for six years, the branch manager of a car rental company, Yoshikawa (played by Masayuki Yamada), who had been striving for twelve years, and her middle school classmate, Shigeru Yoshizawa (played by Kei Tanaka), who was involved in the yakuza. On a lazy and scorching summer day, and with the carefree and free little Yoko, she and her cats witnessed the various aspects of the world, joys and sorrows...[Collapse]