Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち, Joze to Tora to Sakanatachi) is a 2020 Japanese animated romance film directed by Kotaro Tamura, written by Sayaka Kuwamura, and based on Seiko Tanabe's short story of the same name.

[1] It opened in 9th place at the Japanese box office in its initial week of release and received highly positive reviews from critics.

[3] Tsuneo Suzukawa, a university student and part time store employee in Osaka, rescues the disabled Josee, when she accidentally pushes her wheelchair down a steep road.

After Chizu dies of a heart attack, Josee holds out alone, but is informed by two men that she will leave the house for a few months.

Tsuneo gets hit by a car, suffers a bone fracture on his paralyzed leg, and stays at the hospital for two months.

When the professor informs Tsuneo that another student will replace him for school and travel, he gives up his dream and leaves Josee some time alone.

One of Tsuneo's friends, Hayato Matsūra, escorts him from the hospital to the library, where Josee reads a story to the children: a book she has drawn called "The Mermaid and the Radiant Wings", an allegory for their relationship.

Her wheelchair is knocked into a snowy road by a careless stranger, and she finds herself tumbling again, right into his arms, the same way they first met.

The anime film adaptation of the short story was announced on December 3, 2019,[5] when Kadokawa Corporation approached Tamura and laid out a set of books to choose from.

[14] Eve performed the film's insert song Shinkai and ending theme Ao no Waltz.