The Cat and The City: Creative Writing and Japan
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 20/10/2020

The Cat and The City: Creative Writing and Japan with Dr Nick Bradley was recorded on the 14th of October 2020. Find out more at: http://bit.ly/3dGTCct

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.

But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer.