The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.
After 11 years in Siberia as a war criminal, a man joins a corporation making fighter planes to sell to the government but other corporations are competing with his firm for the enormous profit of such a deal.
The father and eldest son in an immensely wealthy Japanese family are at odds over the bank controlled by the father and the steelworks his child runs.
