XR: If You See a Cat

Director/Screenplay : Atsushi Wada

Producer/VR Director : Kenji Ishimaru

Production company: Kodansha Ltd.

CG Director : Omar Espinosa

Sound Director : Masumi Takino

Line Producer : Yumiko Kano

Japan; 2025;

Runtime: 37’

It is said that one out of every 20 people in Japan is currently being treated for some form of mental illness. The field of psychiatry in Japan has various problems such as historical backgrounds, difficulties in psychiatry itself, and structural distortions of psychiatry, which may hinder the recovery of people suffering from mental illnesses. In this work, a boy who lost his beloved cat and began hallucinating about the cat is diagnosed with a mental illness simply because he can see the cat, and is forcibly admitted to a hospital for treatment. What will the boy experience in the hospital? This is a work that only VR can provide a realistic view of the problems of psychiatry, the relationship between mother and child, and what salvation means to the boy.