A proud elderly man in a red beret drags his battered supplies along a busy Soho street corner oblivious to the cold winter.
Billing himself as a "grand master artist," Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani spends his days perfecting his trademark cat paintings in front of the Korean-owned deli that doubles as his studio and home.
The energetic octogenarian is the subject of the 74-minute documentary "The Cats of Mirikitani," which has gone from the film festival circuit and winning the Tribeca Audience Award last year to a theatrical run this month in Manhattan.