Genki Kawamura

A Japanese film producer, behind Your Name among others, who wrote a short novel about a postman with a brain tumour and a devil offering him extra days.

The price is that something has to disappear from the world for each day granted. Phones go first, then films, then clocks, then cats. If Cats Disappeared from the World is sentimental and knows it, and the accounting of what a life is actually made of gives it more weight than the premise promises.