The 2002 movie can be displaying in Austin, TX by way of September 18

Distribution firm primarily based in California Dove crocodile confirmed on Instagram on Friday that it was the Tamala 2010: A punk cat in house anime movie on house video in October. The corporate additionally introduced Thursday that the movie shall be proven at AFS Cinema in Austin, Texas from September 13-18. The corporate additionally posted a trailer for the movie on Friday.


The corporate describes the discharge as follows:

Most likely the one anime ever made that was impressed by each Hi there Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno-fever dream that travels backwards and forwards by way of time, following the wide-eyed, lovable cat Tamala on her homeworld of Meguro Metropolis, Cat Earth, a BLADE RUNNER-esque megacity managed by the Catty & Co. Company. Escaping into house, she is ambushed by the God of Loss of life and crash-lands close to Hate Metropolis on Planet Q, the place she meets a brand new buddy, goes bowling and procuring at a thrift retailer – and realizes she will be the newest reincarnation of an historic Greek cat cult with ties to the ever present Catty & Co. A heady, conceptual work of psychedelic sci-fi influenced by the type of traditional manga and anime like Osamu Tezuka‘S Astro boy And Takashi Murakami‘s postmodern artwork motion Superflat, TAMALA 2010 can be a barbaric tackle fashionable shopper tradition: in Meguro Metropolis, a large Colonel Sanders prowls the streets with an axe in his head, and Tamala’s creepy cat eyes are in every single place, promoting chocolate, toothpaste, and drugs to treatment forgetfulness. Written, directed, and composed by the two-person workforce of toL – their extremely addictive electronica/space-lounge rating is well worth the value of admission alone – TAMALA 2010 is equal components Philip Ok.DickMETROPOLIS and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (with just a few sly nods to THE SHINING thrown in for good measure.) In Japanese with English subtitles.

The movie was initially launched in Japan in 2002 and has by no means been launched in English earlier than.

toL directed the movie, wrote the screenplay and designed the characters. Kentaro Nemoto additionally designed the characters and did the 2D animation.

Sources: Dove crocodile‘s X/Twitter account and Instagram account, Austin Chronicle through @WTK