Nihon TV's weekly documentary series, "Super TV" (Mon., 10 p.m.), gets closer to the ground this week with a program about the alley cats who live in Osaka's Shinsekai area of bars and small businesses. A video crew followed the feline denizens of the mazelike district for a full year, and the result is "Chiisana Koneko no Daiboken (The Big Adventures of the Little Kittens)."
Shinsekai measures about 500 meters by 250 meters, and the residents estimate that about a hundred stray cats call it home. Because the felines are considered an integral part of the community, the residents feed and look after them. The program shows how certain cats get into routines, especially in terms of visiting businesses for food.
As far as adventures go, one cat named Mii gives birth to a litter of five kittens, but the space she occupies is a bit cramped, so she decides to move the whole family to the second floor of an abandoned building. The move takes 15 hours. Other segments include the tale of the area's big-boss tomcat, and how the cats survived the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.