If you want to read my review of If Cats Disappeared from the World, read this post. In 世界から猫が消えたなら, a postman with a terminal illness receives an offer from the devil to buy more time to live. But, maybe it’s for a price that’s not worth paying.
A postman (Takeru Sato) discovered that he had a brain tumor, close to the brainstem and very difficult to operate on. Possibly, cancer. According to the doctor, he had a week to live.
“If I disappeared from this world, who would miss me?”
The demon (Takeru Sato) was waiting for the postman to arrive from the hospital to tell him that, in fact, he would die the next day. But, the demon had a deal to offer.
“Erase something from this world and gain a day of life.”
In fact, the one who would choose what would be erased from the world was the devil and he chose to erase the world’s phones. Leaving the postman with two thoughts: whether he had any loved ones to make the last call of his life and how he would live out his last days on earth.
If Cats Disappeared from the World: japanese movie review
The postman was that kind of person who never thinks about the future. He only lived in the present. He took care of himself, the cat and went to work delivering mail.
“I thought it was natural to have a tomorrow.”
After thinking for a while, he decided to call his ex-girlfriend (Aoi Miyazaki). They had met because of a mistaken call she made.
“Did something happen?”
The postman didn’t tell his ex-girlfriend the truth. But, he created an assumption to justify calling her.
“Isn’t there someone else? To make the last call.”
He only had one friend, who was a movie addict. His mother had already passed away and the postman no longer spoke to his father, who didn’t take care of his mother in her last moments.
“You never came to visit her, not once.”
At the end of the date, the postman told the truth to his ex-girlfriend and they remembered that a large part of the love they had experienced was over the phone.
“Without a phone, we wouldn’t have met.”
What the postman didn’t know was that all memories related to the phone would disappear. Consequently, the ex-girlfriend completely forgot about his existence.
If Cats Disappeared from the World review: what is it to be alive?
When the demon reappeared, to erase the world’s phones, he soon offered another deal to grant the postman one more day of life.
He would erase the movies. Soon, the only friend of the postman would completely forget about their friendship.
And that’s where the great dilemma of what living and being alive is. Is it the memories, the people we know, the experiences, the loves, or, simply, the heart beating and the blood running through the veins?
Why you should watch If Cats Disappeared from the World
I won’t leave If Cats Disappeared from the World ending explained or a download link here, but this is a Japanese movie that takes a more objective look at the question: what would you do if you knew when you were going to die? Then it is possible to think more clearly.
It makes you wonder who you’d like to see, what movie you’d like to watch, what music you’d like to listen or where you’d like to go if you knew you didn’t have much time to live.
If Cats Disappeared from the World trailer
I really feel that you will like this one. So I decided to do this Sekai Kara Neko ga Kieta nara review. Go ahead, immerse yourself in the story, the environment and the soundtrack.
And come back later to tell me what you think in the comments. This Japanese movie was based on the novel by Genki Kawamura and filmed in Japan, Argentina and Brazil.
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