The Enemy's the Pirates!: The Cats' Banquet

1989 2h 30m JA

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7.2

SOLID

★7.2TMDB · 4

ActionAdventureAnimationComedyScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Apulo (a cat-like space alien with the ability to lock a human's emotions) and Latell work for the Division of Space Piracy (or DSP for short). The two of them are extremely destructive in their solving of DSP cases. They are attempting to stop Youmei the space pirate from exploiting Computer Aided Thinking for his own nefarious plans.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Kenyu Horiuchi
Kaneto Shiozawa
Yuji Mitsuya
Shinji Ogawa
Chief Buster (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Katsuhisa Yamada
Writers: Akinori Endo
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 6

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 6

CAST

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Kenyu Horiuchi and Kaneto Shiozawa and Yuji Mitsuya carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0100759 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Katsuhisa Yamada directs. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Clocks in at 150 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Kenyu Horiuchi and Kaneto Shiozawa and Yuji Mitsuya carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0100759 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.