Cat Soup
ねこぢる草 (Nekojiru-Sou)
dir. Tatsuo Sato
2001

After having dinner with Sam, Ramona and Régis at Hurry Curry, Régis and watched a bunch of random episodes of anime, including Masaaki Yuasa's "Beatbox Bandits" episode of Samurai Champloo. Then we watched my Liquid Art Limited Edition DVD of Cat Soup because Régis had never seen it but he'd heard of it because Masaaki Yuasa was the Animation Producer.

I think the last time I'd watched this super trippy anime short was when I had it on in background at one of my parties (I think it was after the Falling Lizard screening in 2004 cuz I remember Dan McLaughlin was there while Cat Soup was playing).

As much as I love Cat Soup, it's a bit frustrating to learn that the director, Tatsuo Sato, went on to direct the disappointing Ninja Scroll TV series (Régis and I started to watch the first episode tonight but we stopped halfway thru cuz it was so bad... they flipped a background and reused it immediately... WTF?!).

Cat Soup (Liquid Art Limited Edition)