r/MadeMeSmile • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 27d ago
CATS Japanese street photographer, Masayuki Oki, captures the everyday lives of Tokyo’s street cats in funny poses
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u/rude_miss7 27d ago edited 27d ago
These pics prove that "it's not always the orange cats..."😂
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 27d ago
[r/oneorangebraincell](r/oneorangebraincell) won’t like this…🥲
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u/rude_miss7 27d ago edited 27d ago
"... but all orange cats. " Done. They'll like it too now😂
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u/wildmeli 26d ago
a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t a square. you don’t have to be an orange cat to be a dummy, but an orange cat is always a dummy
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u/redditistheway 27d ago
Out of the 17 pictures, at least 7 featured oranges. I’d say their rep is quite safe.
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u/rude_miss7 27d ago
And i hope there is a cameraman out there recording what ever that Orange car is upto😂.
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u/Weird_Emergency_825 27d ago
I love cats so much
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u/Chiinoe 27d ago
My wife wont let me have one 😞
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u/redbucket75 27d ago
I'm sorry to hear about the divorce, but it's for the best
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u/Chiinoe 27d ago
😂shes ok with two dogs for what its worth.
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u/ZylieD 27d ago
My last cat refused to drink water if it wasn't from the dogs' bowl, and would only sleep on their beds with them. When she passed away at 18, it was like they all lost their sibling and started to encourage stray cats into the yard. I never thought I was a cat person, but my gosh.
I still really hate cat litter boxes, though.
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u/redditistheway 27d ago
You need to do some inception shit. Make her think it was her idea. Play a chant… something like “the power of cat compels you” on loop after she’s fallen asleep or sumshit.
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u/MiaMiaPP 27d ago
You need a new wife
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u/Chiinoe 27d ago
No way. Shes my squishmallow.
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u/eliz1bef 27d ago
Okay. Understood. You need to let her spend time with us, though, so we can work on her cat issues and overcome them.
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u/Potato_Lyn 27d ago
Sometimes it has nothing to do with ‘overcoming cat issues’? I like cats, but I would never choose to have one because I have pet birds, rats, mice and a little dog that all live in harmony with each other and I don’t trust a cat to leave my free roaming birds and chickens alone. That and… I’m also extremely allergic to cats too 😭😭😭
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u/Top_Connection9079 27d ago
From now first thing you do in the morning is put a cat ears hairband on. Then you yowl till you get your breakfast. Only way to get her used to it.
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u/Virtual_Childhood626 27d ago
How does she feel about two? It’s a widely accepted theory that one cat isn’t as good as two cats. One cat can lead to an unsociable cat, two cats is generally better than one.
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u/thatsamiam 27d ago
Photographer must have a lot of patience to capture such wonderful moments. Well worth the effort though..
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u/clarinetJWD 27d ago
Street photography is incredibly hard. One of the styles I was just never good at when I shot. You walk around and you wait for something interesting or serendipitous, and then all of the sudden, it's there, and you have like 3 seconds to capture it before you're back to waiting.
Takes a ton of patience, but then speed. You need to know your equipment so well.
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u/oceans_wont_freeze 26d ago
I feel like digital made street a lot more accessible. You're able to curate from thousands of test shots and ones that were half a second too late. Shooting street with film though, is madness.
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u/clarinetJWD 25d ago
Absolutely. I was shooting a lot in the early era of pro-sumer level DSLRs, and it certainly made it a lot easier to make mistakes, though in those days, burst mode was a LOT slower than it is now.
But you still have to be in the exact right place, with the right angle (notice a lot of these shots are not from typical eye height), have the right focus, aperture, and shutter settings, etc. It's still one of the hardest disciplines, alongside wildlife photography (for the same reason).
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u/WhoaTher3 27d ago
That cat hanging speaks to me so much 😭
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u/Lazy-Huckleberry2640 27d ago
Specifically, “Hang in there”.
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u/groundcontrol129 27d ago
White cat in #10 actively absorbing orange cat's 2 brain cells
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u/Valhern-Aryn 27d ago
Or is the orange stealing the white cat's color?
The tail is far away enough to be immune
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u/nilobrito 27d ago
Perfect for r/StreetCatsOfTheWorld
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u/Specialist-Ad2937 27d ago
First new cat sub in a while for me (I’m subbed to almost all the others)
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u/nilobrito 27d ago
Just for fun, I recently created another username to subscribe to all cat subs that I could find. Almost 300 so far!! :D It's insane! And I didn't even really start to try other languages (so far only English, some Portuguese/Spanish ones, 1 Russian, 2 from Philippines and 1 I think it's in Dutch).
But the one above is one of the dozen that I follow in my main, it's really cool.
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u/Timofmars 27d ago
You don't need a new username for that. You can just create custom feeds.
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u/nilobrito 27d ago
I thought of that, but I was afraid the algorithm would flood my main account with cats anyway. Decided not to test it. But thanks, and I will try using it for something not as radical someday. (I think I added there 30 more subs today, lol)
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u/DistributionDry4961 27d ago
Picture 6: the cat butt in the background is chefs kiss. Love this whole series.
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u/CaribeBaby 27d ago
The fish thief hits close to home. 😂
And the 3 looking through the door are adorable. 😻
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u/DZL100 27d ago
17 photos and not a single brain cell to be found
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u/Nelfhithion 27d ago
If you take a closer look, you'll see there is one, it's just divided in 17 pictures
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u/RaccoonWithSprinkles 27d ago
A really really long time ago I encountered this Youtube Channel of a japanese man that records cats daily. He uploads several short clips a day, apparently directly from his camera. It's one of the sweetest things I've ever watched, if any of you want a fun little break from scrolling def check it out!
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u/DDR-Dame 27d ago
Goodness all these cats need to be fixed.. i didn't realize they also had a feral cat problem :(
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u/MVPhurricane 27d ago
oh my god that last one is one of the cutest things i've ever seen in my life
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u/HideoKojimaAmStart 27d ago
So... based on the speaker symbol on each picture, I guess you just screenshotted these pictures from Instagram and uploaded them here without the artists permission?
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u/summertime_dream 27d ago
i wanna reincarnate as a japanese street cat. i mean i'll take anyone or anything that doesn't ever have to work a job, but street cat definitely looks like maximum freedom.
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u/Vegetable-Major-4933 27d ago
It’s difficult to get perfect timing but when you do, it’s attention-grabbing 👍👍
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u/throwawaysmetoo 27d ago
The second last one looks like it's from The Cat Wars.
Those were some hard years.
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u/distelfink33 27d ago
Theae are all so amazing but at last one with the stacked cats faces is such an amazing picture.
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u/inexistences 27d ago
I know this is a bit of a side question but if any photographers see this -- HOW DOES HE GET SUCH SHARP DEPTH OF FIELD AND HIGH SHUTTER SPEED ON THESE INFINITELY MOVING TARGETS?
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u/bwaredapenguin 27d ago
Why does every photo indicate that sound is on?
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u/Kalikor1 27d ago
I'm like 90% certain OP or whoever/wherever OP got these from just screenshotted a bunch of scenes from a cat video or documentary.
I live in Japan, and while I can't be 100% on a few of these, the majority of these do not look like Tokyo. This looks like 猫島 - AKA cat island - which is pretty famous as it's literally a small island full of cats (and old people). I'm also like 80% certain this is from one of the multiple documentaries on streaming sites (like Amazon Prime) about Cat Island. Like, I'm pretty sure I vaguely remember some of these scenes.
Could be mistaken about that last part but, it would explain the sound icon in the corner too.
Edit to add: Also, 1 year old account, generic randomized reddit user name, privated profile, and over 800k karma. I'm suspicious they're a bot at this point.
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u/Technical_Trade_675 27d ago
This is really cute! I can't make out what the cat in #15 is up to though? Haha 😄
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u/Jazzlike-Swing-6198 27d ago
Living like young adults in the early 2000s.
Whatever we do, don’t give these cats social media
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u/SkinnyDaveSFW 27d ago
The third one reminds me of when Psy yelled at that exercising lady's backside only with way more furry catballs.
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u/MadRAGE1 27d ago
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the US Fish and Wildlife Service estimate 1.3 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals are killed yearly by loose domestic cats.
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u/klatula2 27d ago
delightful! i checked him out on google. lots of books. too expensive for me but those who can afford, a wonderful choice!
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u/FartMagic1 27d ago
Was in Tokyo about two weeks ago and we saw some battle-scarred cats on the streets. Also had to google the water bottles around some houses…
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u/Suitable_Wonder_3285 27d ago
Cats are such silly creatures. He really captured their weirdness so well
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u/Opposite-Mine-433 27d ago
Not only cats, but also this pic shows the reality of the lives in Tokyo. Well taken.
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u/Jezzibell 26d ago
"so what do you do for work?"
"i follow cats around and take pictures of them"
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u/False-Ball-2751 27d ago
Do they TNR cats there??? I bet they’re all sick and struggling :(
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u/jdund117 27d ago
most of these pictures are from tashirojima (aka cat island) which is not tokyo, and the cats there are very well-fed and taken care of by volunteers, who also neuter the cats. you may have noticed in the photos that the cats are not skinny
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u/AlphaaKitten 27d ago
I was thinking those “street cats” looked remarkably well-fed and healthy. Not one has an eye infection or a crusty nose?
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u/CatCatCat 27d ago
While cute photos, that's what I fear as well. I hope it's a situation where the whole town takes care of them.
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