The Cat Returns

Name: The Cat Returns
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Family
Released: 2002-07-19
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Tetsu Watanabe, Yousuke Saito

It's not so bad being a cat, now is it?

猫の恩返し (2002)

Timing: 1:15 (75 min)

—
no scores

7.1/10
2493

7.9/10
44847

7.1/10
71000

Rate the movie:

Everything about the movie

Video 5

Photo 84

Actors and characters

Video for the film The Cat Returns — The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Trailer [In Theaters April 2018]

0:31

Photo 84

Release date

2002-07-19

Country

Japan

Production

TOHO, Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Mitsubishi

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Family

Budget

Box office

$54 156 270

Website

https://gkids.com/films/the-cat-returns

Director

Hiroyuki Morita

Actors

Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Tetsu Watanabe, Yousuke Saito, Takayuki Yamada, Hitomi Sato, Kenta Satoi, Mari Hamada, Kumiko Okae
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Toshio Suzuki, Nozomu Takahashi, Chiyoshi Tanaka, Koji Hoshino, Hironori Aihara, Takeyoshi Matsushita, Hideyuki Takai, Seiichiro Ujiie, Toshio Miyakawa

Camera operator

Kentaro Takahashi

Composer

Yuji Nomi

Artist

Audition

Editing

Megumi Uchida, Akio Ichimura, Eiko Fujitsu
Whole Team (110)

Short description

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, the anime was planned as a short film, but Toshio Suzuki was impressed by the script and the main character Haru, and happily allowed Hayao Miyazaki to make the anime a feature-length film.
Work on the film began when Studio Ghibli received an offer from a Japanese theme park to create a twenty-minute animation starring cats.
The film took 3 years to make.
The English title is “The Cat Returns” because the character of the Baron previously appeared in the film “Whisper of the Heart” (1995) as a statue, but was nevertheless one of the main characters of the film. A literal translation from Japanese is “The Cat’s Gratitude.”
The English title is "The Cat Returns" because the character of the Baron previously appeared in the film "Whisper of the Heart" (1995) as a statue, but was nevertheless one of the main characters of the film. A literal translation from Japanese is "The Cat's Gratitude."