Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.
Hiroshi Otake
Michael (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Narrator
Hideyuki Umezu
Mr. Ōbayashi (voice)
Eiko Yamada
Mrs. Ōbayashi (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
K. (voice)
What's Michael? is a animation, comedy film released in 1985 exploring themes of cat, animals. Directed by Makoto Nagao, it stars Hiroshi Otake, Ichiro Nagai, Hideyuki Umezu. Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.
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