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, also known in English as ''Pussy Soup'', is a 2008 Japanese comedy film directed by Minoru Kawasaki. It is an adaptation of the manga ''
Neko Ramen , also known as ''Neko Ramen'', is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga created by Kenji Sonishi. The comedy centers around a cat (''Taishō'') and his encounters while running a ramen shop. The ''yonkoma'' series has been adapted int ...
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Plot

A young white cat is promised to a life as a super-model cat like his father. But to escape the toxic relationship with the latter, he opens a ramenya.


Reception

A review found that: "In the end, ‘Neko Ramen Taisho’ doesn't work simply because there just isn't enough to work with here. The story is weak as water and most of the humour falls flat, with even the puppet thing getting old very quickly. If you like the sound of the idea, do yourself a favour and pick up the series instead." The film is ranked number 6 in the list of Asian cat films established by AsianMoviePlus, who warns the reader that the cat in the film is "a puppet who contemplates suicide and deals with father issues, fame and the search for himself. Let's just say that cuteness was never so paranoid." The book ''The Planet According to the Movies'' states of ''Pussy Soup'': "This is the best and most misleading movie title in this book." The film has been called a "criminally underrated work" and "a mixture of ''Garfield'' and ''
Tampopo is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen western", a play on the term Spaghetti Weste ...
''". ''Pussy Soup'' was screened at the Nippon Connection Filmfestival, in
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in 2009.


Home video release

A DVD version was released in Japan on May, 29 2009.


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2008 films Films directed by Minoru Kawasaki Japanese comedy films 2008 comedy films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub