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2023

★★½ Watched 09 May 2025

Was Yukijiro Hotaru supposed to be playing his character from Zeiram?

2020

★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

There's some imagination to the creature designs, but very little to establish characters that the audience should be invested in, even by horror movie standards.

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1992

★★ Rewatched 27 Sep 2021

Heads-up that The Cat is a re-edited version of a 1991 flick called Nine Lives (妖獣大戦) with most of the actors replaced. The action/SFX scenes have been shuffled around, which is part of why it feels pretty incoherent at times. Nine Lives is a better movie experience, even if it's a bit longer.

The effects scenes are great, but I wish the other version of the film were more readily available (currently it's only on Japanese VHS).

1989

★★★★ 2

The TV edit smooths over some of the clunkiness of the theatrical version; recommended checking that version out if you can.

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