Felidae

anime   Germany

Fine film from 1994. A cat, new to the neighborhood, discovers that cats have been viciously murdered there for a long time. He sets out to find the perp in what amounts to a cross-species Sherlock Holmes story.

This worked because the plot was intriguing, the characters were sharply drawn and the anthropomorphism minimized by having them actually behave as cats would. Film included fairly explicit sex and violence which kept it out of the reach of most children.

Another step in the evolution of anime into a legitimate form. Nice work.

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