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The Cat Returns (movie)

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[ adapted from Baron: The Cat Returns (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Das Königreich der Katzen (German)
El Regreso del Gato (Spanish)
Haru en el reino de los gatos (Spanish)
Katteprinsen (Danish)
Le royaume des chats (French)
Narzeczona dla kota (Polish)
Neko no Ongaeshi (Japanese)
O Reino dos Gatos (Portuguese)
Возвращение кота (Russian)
猫の恩返し (Japanese)
貓的報恩 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Themes: catgirls
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Haru-chan, a normal girl in a normal town, saves a strange cat carrying a present from being overrun by a truck. In return she's going to receive lots of favors, including marriage to the crown prince of Cat Kingdom. As she finds that a bit too much, she gets into contact with the Cat Business Office. Together with CBO's owner, the Baron, she enters the Cat Kingdom to try and prevent her marriage.
User Ratings: 1387 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 160 votes (sub:95, dub:56, raw:6, Fre.sub:1, Fre.edit.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Excellent: 396 votes (sub:272, dub:113, raw:4, Fre.sub:3, Ita.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1)
 Very good: 387 votes (sub:265, dub:98, raw:9, Ger.dub:4, ?:3, Spa.sub:3, Fre.sub:2, Swe.dub:1, edit.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Good: 300 votes (sub:200, dub:77, ?:5, Ger.dub:3, Spa.sub:3, Fre.dub:3, Dut.sub:2, Rus.dub:2, Rus.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, Pol.edit.dub:1, Swe.sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Decent: 87 votes (sub:57, dub:22, raw:2, Spa.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 So-so: 27 votes (sub:16, dub:9, Ger.dub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 15 votes (sub:13, dub:2)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:3, ?:1)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 2374 users, rank: #232
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.013 (Very good+.01), std. dev.: 1.378, rank: #374
Weighted mean: 7.953 (Very good-.04), rank: #409 (seen all: 7.96 / seen some: 6.55)
Bayesian estimate: 7.950 (Very good-.04), rank: #263
Running time: 75 minutes
Vintage:
2002-07-20
2007-01-02 (Spain)
Premiere date:
2002-07-20 (Japan)
2005-01-22 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2006-03-03 (HBO Family Latin America)
Releases: We have 18
Ending Theme:
"Kaze ni naru" by Ayano Tsuji
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 2
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Related reviews:
    The Cat Returns DVD

Related releases:
    The Cat Returns - Picture Book (Artbook) 2007-10-02 (from $6.85)
    The Cat Returns (DVD) 2005-02-22 (from $22.49)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hiroyuki Morita

Script: Reiko Yoshida

Storyboard: Hiroyuki Morita

Music: Yuuji Nomi

Original Manga: Aoi Hiiragi

Character Design: Satoko Morikawa

Art director: Naoya Tanaka

Executive producer:
Hayao Miyazaki
Hideyuki Takai
Hironori Aihara
Koji Hoshino
Seiichiro Ujiie
Takeyoshi Matsushita
Toshio Miyagawa

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

Animation Check:
Aya Onishi
Kaori Fujii
Rie Nakagome
Yutaka Sakamoto

Animation Supervisor:
Ei Inoue
Kazutaka Ozaki

Assistant Supervising Animator:
Akihiko Yamashita
Atsushi Tamura
Eiji Yamamori
Takeshi Inamura

Audio Director: Kazuhiro Hayashi

Background Art:
Hiromasa Oguro
Hiromitsu Narumi
Hiroshi Gouroku
Kazuo Oga
Kikuyo Yano
Masaki Yoshizaki
Masako Osada
Mitsuo Yoshino
Naomi Kasugai
Noboru Yoshida
Og Chul Shin
Osamu Masuyama
Ryoko Ina
Ryotaro Ueta
Sayaka Hirahara
Shihomi Suzuki
Takanori Tanaka
Takashi Omori
Tomoe Ishihara
Yohei Takamatsu
Yoshikazu Fukutome
Youji Takeshige

Background Color Adjustment: Kanako Takahashi

Background Scanning:
Jiwon Kong
Takeshi Ogawa
Yuki Yokoyama

Casting Coordination:
Ayumi Sato
Motohiro Hatanaka
Naomi Yasu

Color design: Osamu Mikasa

Color Key:
Kiyomi Yamazaki
Rumiko Hayashi

Computer Graphics:
Kazuhiro Tamura
Keisuke Nakamura
Shinji Nasu
Tasuhiko Yoshihara

Digital Art Enhancement: Keiko Itogawa

Digital Camera & Composite Operator:
Hironobu Horikoshi
Katsufumi Sato
Masashi Toriyama
Susumu Fukushi
Takeo Goto
Toshiyuki Fukushima

Digital Camera & Composite Supervisor: Kentaro Takahashi

Digital Ink & Paint:
Akiko Nasu
Akiko Sato
Akiko Shimizu
Eiko Inoue
Eriko Ishikawa
Eun Kyoung Kang
Eun Sil Lee
Fumie Kawamata
Fumino Okura
Haruna Kiryu
Hiromi Takahashi
Hiroshi Iijima
Hyeon Ok Choi
Hyun Ji An
Hyun Suk Kim
Jin A Park
Kaori Seki
Kuk Dong Han
Kumi Nanjo
Kyoung Mi Kim
Mi Ae Na
Mi Sun Jang
Miho Fujimori
Naho Mitsuishi
Nobuko Takahashi
Noriko Matsumoto
Oh Soon Kang
Ryuji Uchida
Sayuri Nagashima
Shihomi Miyachi
Tomoko Yamamoto
Youn Hee Lee
Youn Suk Ra
Young Kyoung Park
Young Sim Lee
Yukiko Kakita
Yun Hee Park

Digital Optical Recording: Noboru Nishio

Dobly Film Consultant: Tsutomu Kawahigashi

Dolby Film Consultant: Mikio Mori

DTS Mastering:
Atsuko Nakayama
Atsushi Aikawa

Editing: Megumi Uchida (Seyama Editing Room)

Editing Assistant: Mutsumi Takemiya

Foley:
Akihiko Okase
Masaya Kitada
Yuji Tan
Yukio Hokari

Foley Mixer: Shuji Inoue

Foley Recording: Kayoko Morozumi

In-Between Animation:
Akihiko Adachi
Akiko Teshima
Alexandra Weihrauch
Chiharu Haraguchi
Chikako Sasagawa
Chizuko Koike
Eun Hee An
Eun Me Pyun
Eun Sun Kim
Gosei Oda
Hee Eun Choi
Hiromi Sasaki
Hitomi Tateno
Hye Soon Byun
Hye Sung Lee
Hyeon Soo Joung
Hyo Sun Lee
Hyun Mi Cho
Ikuko Shimada
Jee Young Soung
Jeong Ho Jang
Ji Eun Kim
Jin Ju Go
Jin Young Han
Jung Hee Kim
Kanako Sato
Kasumi Hara
Keiko Tomizawa
Keisuke Shimohira
Kiyoko Makita
Kumiko Tanihara
Kyong Sook Park
Mai Nakazato
Makiko Suzuki
Mariko Suzuki
Masako Sakano
Masako Terada
Masami Nakanishi
Masaya Saito
Maya Fujimori
Mayumi Ohmura
Mi Kyoung Yoon
Mi Ok Lee
Minori Noguchi
Mioko Katano
Miyoko Shikibu
Morihiko Yano
Moyo Takahashi
Myung Hee Youn
Naoko Takahashi
Nozomu Ito
Seiko Azuma
Seon Ea Kim
Shinobu Saeki
Shunsuke Hirota
So Young Lee
Soon Ha Hwang
Soon Yang Ryu
Soon Yeol Choi
Su Jin Hwang
Suk Hwa Park
Takahiro Sugawara
Tsutomu Kaichi
Yoko Matsumoto
Youn Hee Jeong
Young Hee Joung
Yukari Umebayashi
Yukari Yamaura
Yukie Takahashi
Yumiko Kitajima
Yun Ju Yang

Key Animation:
Atsuko Otani
Atsushi Sekiguchi
Ayako Hata
Emiko Shimura
Hideaki Yoshio
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Hiroyuki Aoyama
Hisao Yokobori
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Kazuhide Tomonaga
Keiko Nakaji
Keiko Shimizu
Ken Baba
Kenichi Yamaguchi
Mariko Matsuo
Masafumi Yokota
Masahiro Koyama
Masahiro Kurio
Masako Sato
Michio Mihara
Michiyo Suzuki
Mineko Ueda
Minoru Ohashi
Miwa Sasaki
Nagisa Miyazaki
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Sawako Miyamoto
Shigeo Akahori
Shigeru Kimishima
Shinichiro Yamada
Shinji Otsuka
Shinobu Mori
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Tadashi Okumura
Teiichi Takiguchi
Tetsuya Nishio
Toshiharu Sugie
Toshiyuki Komaru
Yoshiharu Sato
Yoshinobu Michihata
Yuichi Tanaka

Layout Design: Satoko Morikawa

Music Editor: Naoko Ono

Music Production: Kazumi Inaki

Music Production Management:
Kenjiro Kishi
Yuko Hisamatsu

Optical Recording: Futoshi Ueda

Orchestra Conductor: Hiroshi Kumagai

Post Production:
Noriko Tsushi
Tamaki Kojo

Production Assistant:
Atsushi Kamimura
Ryosuke Kiyokawa
Yosuke Toba
Yuichiro Mochizuki

Production Desk:
Hideo Deguchi
Kenji Imura

Project Concept: Hayao Miyazaki

Recording And Sound Mixing: Makoto Sumiya

Recording engineer: Akihiko Oono

Recording Studio:
Michihiko Iwana
Takeshi Imaizumi

Sound Effects: Toru Negishi

Special Effects: Toyohiko Sakakibara

Theme Song Arrangement:
Takamune Negishi (Music)
Takuo Yamamoto (Strings and Horns)

Theme Song Composition: Ayano Tsuji

Theme Song Lyrics: Ayano Tsuji

Theme Song Performance: Ayano Tsuji

Titles: Kaoru Mano

 

Chizuru Ikewaki as Haru

Yoshihiko Hakamada as Baron

Tetsu Watanabe as Muta

Aki Maeda as Yuki

Hitomi Satou as Hiromi

Kenta Satoi as Natori

Kumiko Okae as Haru's Mother

Mari Hamada as Natoru

Takayuki Yamada as Run

Tetsurou Tanba as Neko Ou

Youko Honna as Chika

Yousuke Saitou as Toto

Atsuko Tanaka

Daisuke Egawa

Hikari Yono

Katsumi Chou

Keiko Tsukamoto

Ken Yasuda

Makoto Aoki

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Tae Komamura

Takayuki Suzui

Tarusuke Shingaki

Toshihiro Nakamura

Toshitaka Shimizu

Yayoi Kazuki

Yo Oizumi

Yuri Shiratori

Yuuji Kishi

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio Ghibli

Audio Recording: KiKi

Backgrounds:
Production IG Oguro Kobo
Studio Ghibli

Casting Coordination: Pug Point Japan

Development: Imagica

Distributor: TOHO

Foley Recording: Toho Sound Studio

Music Performance: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Music Production: Studio Ghibli

Music Recording: Tokyo Opera City

Production:
Studio Ghibli
The Cat Returns Production Committee

Production Committee:
Hakuhodo Inc.
Mitsubishi Corporation
NTV
TOHO
Tokuma Shoten

Production Cooperation:
Dr. Movie
Studio Fantasia
T2 Studio
Telecom Animation Film

Recording Studio: Tokyo TV Center

Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production

Special Cooperation: LAWSON

Supporting Animation Studio:
Anime Torotoro
Radical Party
Studio Cockpit

Titles: Malin Post

English cast 
English staff 

Co-director: Ned Lott

Executive producer: Rick Dempsey

Producer: Ned Lott

Adaptation:
Cindy Davis Hewitt
Donald H. Hewitt

ADR Mixer: Doc Kane

Color Timing: Chris DeLaGuardia

Dialogue Recording:
Bill Higley
Bill Komar

Manager Of Post Production: David Candiff

Negative Cutting: Rick MacKay

Post-Production Coordinator: Cory Hansen

Production Coordination: Vicki Rondou

Re-Recording Mixing: Tom Dahl

Special Thanks To:
Bill Fadness
Bruce Tauscher
Hermann H. Schmidt
Robert H. Bagley
Sara Bleick

Studio Management: Randy Coppinger

Supervising ADR Editor: Petra Bach

Titles: Mary Meacham Hogg

Voice Casting: Ned Lott

Voice Direction: Rick Dempsey

Anne Hathaway as Haru

Cary Elwes as Baron

Peter Boyle as Muta

Andrew Bevis as Prince Lune

Andy Richter as Notoru

Elliott Gould as Toto

Judy Greer as Yuki

Katia Coe as Haru (young)

Kristen Bell as Hiromi

Kristine Sutherland as Haru's Mother

Rene Auberjonois as Natori

Tim Curry as Cat King

Bradley Pierce

Brian Herskowitz

Courtnee Draper

Diz White

Erin Chambers

Greg Berg

Jason Harris

Kat Cressida

Mona Marshall

Randy Montgomery

Robert Clotworthy

Terri Douglas

English companies 

Digital Film Recording: Walt Disney Feature Animation Film and Digital Department

Distributor:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Licensed by:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
Viz Media

Negative Cutting: Buena Vista Negative Cutting

Prints: Technicolor

Titles: Buena Vista Imaging

Korean staff 
Korean cast 
(none)
 

Bae Jung-Min as Yuki

Bak Ji-Hun as Muta

Choe Mun-Za as Haru's Mother

Choe Suk-Pil as Toto

Gim Seo-Young as Haru

Hong Si-Hoe as Baron

Jie Mi-Ae as Natoru

Jun Gwang-Ju as Matsuda

Lee In-Sung as Natori

Noe Min as Neko-ou

U Jung-Sin as Hiromi

Um Sang-Hyun as Rune

Korean companies 
(none)
French staff 
French cast 

Dubbing Director: Mathias Kozlowski

 

Alexis Victor as Le prince Loon

Emilie Rault as Haru

Evelyne Grandjean as Natorn

Gérard Dessalles as Toto

Jean-Claude Sachot as Mouta

Jean-Pierre Leroux as Natori

Julie Turin as Blanche

Michel Barbey as Le roi des chats

Noémi Orphelin as Hiromi

Noémie Orphelin as Hiromi

Patrick Borg as Baron

French companies 

Broadcaster:
Canal +
Canal + Family (from November 2007)
Ciné Cinema Famiz (from February 2009)

Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers

Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster:
HBO Latin America
TVE (clan tv)

Distributor: Cameo (Spain)

Spanish cast 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Angela Wiederhut as Haru

Martin Umbach as Baron

Gudo Hoegel as Muta

Kai Taschner as Toto

Susanne von Medvey as Natoru

Thomas Fritsch as Katzenkönig

German companies 

Distributor: Universum-Films


Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Paradiso Home Entertainment

Dutch cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Monolith Films

Polish cast 
(none)

Portuguese cast 
Portuguese staff 
(none)

Armando Tiraboschi as Barão

Letícia Quinto as Haru

Angelica Santos as Yuki

Dado Monteiro as Lune

Rita Almeida as Funcionária Real

Tatá Guarnieri as Muta

Walter Breda as Rei Gato

Cassius Romero as Toto

Cecília Lemes as Mamãe

Eleonora Prado as Hiromi

Portuguese companies 

Distributor: Europa Filmes

Dubbing Studio: Sigma


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Distributor: Deltamac (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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