[Many thanks to Don Brown from Ryuganji for passing along some key details on this. Thanks to him it is now bigger, more detailed, more accurate and more nutritious. Go Don!]
The man behind The Taste of Tea and Funky Forest is nothing if not prolific. Prolific and strange. And now Katsuhito Ishii - via his production company
It's not Ishii per se, although his company Nice Rainbow is partly behind it. The director's actually Miki Shunichiro, his NR partner and collaborator on "The Funky Forest", and stars Kimura Yoshino from "Sukiyaki Western Django" and Fernando Meirelles' upcoming "Blindness". It's a straight-to-DVD work based on a comic strip about a salaryman rabbit, his two kids and his human wife living in an apartment building.
Pictures here:
http://www.nicerainbow.com/blog/cat12/
Trailer here:
http://www.jbook.co.jp/dvd/movie/rabipapa_L.wmv
This is the brief blurb I wrote on it when the news first came out: http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-835
Not much extra information at that time, other than the fact it's based on a manga by Hiroyuki Yasuda, who authored "Shomuni."
i remember passing this along to todd some months back, they appeared online and i stumbled upon them when checking for new ishii stuff - the DVDs came out just recently, no subs for japan, two volumes or a package containing both - and that's all....