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A large cat colony inhabits a Shinto shrine. Residents take care of them; others disturbed by the disorder. Director Kazuhiro Soda observes their coexistence.. The serious programmer who presented the British premiere of this documentary at the London Film Festival 2024 repeatedly used the term "inhuman animals" – wokeism comes to the animal kingdom! But the director Kazuhiro Sôda was an interesting guy, taking selfies with the audience – which belied his unpromising claim that he worked without any research… Of course, dogs are superior to cats without question. However, even non-cat lovers are likely to be charmed by the felines who live at a Shinto shrine in a small Japanese coastal town. We see them being fed by well-wishers, being caught to be ‘fixed’, sharing food with their kittens, etc. But it’s not all cats: humans also appear, in sequences such as the endless board meeting and cleaning up after a typhoon. The problem of filming an 'observation film' of this kind, there is little likelihood that people with a camera pointed at them will actually behave as they normally do – so how much is the documentary maker changed by the mere fact of their presence? As a result, can we really say that what we see is accurate? But in its presentation of a slice of Japanese life, the film is worth watching at least once.