![]() ![]() We start learning more about this postman’s backstory - family, friendships, past loves, travels - and empathizing with him. The story progresses through successive days and more removed items, illustrating through both flashbacks and present-day scenes why each item brought meaning to the postman’s life. ![]() If the movie’s title was accurate, you might expect cats to be the first thing to disappear. However, the postman also learns that he can make a faustian bargain to extend his life by removing one meaningful thing (and all trace of its prior existence) from the world for each additional day he wants to live. ![]() The devil informs the postman that he’s expected to die the next day from a brain tumor. What If Cats Disappeared from the World does focus on is a young unnamed postman who comes home (where he lives alone with his cat) one day to discover his doppelgänger… who turns out to be the devil. Rather the movie, and the novel of the same name it was adapted from, more likely wanted to catch the attention (and money) of feline fanciers like me through a cat-baity title. ![]() Despite the disastrous implications of its name, this 2016 Japanese drama does not depict some dystopia void of feline companionship the prospect of kitties disappearing only forms a small part of its story. As a cat lover, I’ve never seen a more frightening movie title than If Cats Disappeared from the World. ![]()
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