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The Cat Returns (movie)

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Alternative title:
Chú mèo trở lại (vietnamese)
Das Königreich der Katzen (German)
El Regreso del Gato (Spanish)
El reino de los gatos (Spanish)
El retorno de los gatos (Spanish)
Haru en el reino de los gatos (Spanish)
Katteprinsen (Danish)
La ricompensa del gatto (Italian)
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))
고양이의 보은 (Korean)
Objectionable content: None
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: 2364 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 249 votes (sub:136, dub:99, raw:5, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:7
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French edited dub
1 Finnish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Excellent: 613 votes (sub:369, dub:217, raw:6, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:19
5 French subtitled
4 Spanish subtitled
2 Mandarin dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Dutch dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Very good: 682 votes (sub:423, dub:219, raw:11, ?:6, edit.dub:2, others:21
7 Spanish subtitled
3 German dubbed
2 French subtitled
2 German subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Swedish dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Catalan dubbed
1 Swedish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Good: 540 votes (sub:332, dub:169, ?:6, raw:1, edit.dub:1, others:31
9 Spanish subtitled
5 German dubbed
3 French dubbed
3 Russian dubbed
2 Russian edited dub
2 Dutch subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Czech dubbed
1 German subtitled
1 Polish edited dub
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Decent: 174 votes (sub:106, dub:53, ?:3, raw:2, others:10
2 Polish subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 55 votes (sub:32, dub:18, raw:1, ?:1, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Not really good: 24 votes (sub:20, dub:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 15 votes (dub:7, sub:6, raw:1, ?:1)
 Bad: 9 votes (sub:7, dub:2)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 4011 users, rank: #229 (of 9535)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.921 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.3881, rank: #805 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.857 (Very good), rank: #808 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.86 / seen some: 7.47 / won't finish: 3.34)
Bayesian estimate: 7.855 (Very good), rank: #572 (of 7243)
Running time: 75 minutes
Vintage:
2002-07-20
2005-05-09 (Canal CinemaPlus - Colombia)
2007-01-02 (Spain)
2016-10-22 (Discovery Kids Latin America)
Premiere date:
2002-07-20 (Japan)
2005-01-22 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2006-03-03 (HBO Family Latin America)
Release dates: We have 18
Ending Theme:
"Kaze ni naru" by Ayano Tsuji
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
Reviews:
The Cat Returns BD+DVD (Jun 17, 2015)
The Cat Returns DVD (Mar 31, 2005)
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R3 Ghibli Boxed Set (Jul 21, 2004)
Neko Complete (Jul 10, 2002)
Neko no Ongaeshi (Mar 30, 2002)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Le Royaume des Chats / The Cat Returns [Bilingual Cover] [CA] (BD+DVD) 2017-01-15
    The Cat Returns (BD+DVD) 2015-06-16 (from $24.97)
    The Cat Returns (BD+DVD) 2018-01-16 (from $19.89)
    The Cat Returns [SteelBook] (BD+DVD) 2021-03-16 (from $149.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    The Cat Returns (DVD) 2005-02-22 (from $26.58)
    The Cat Returns (DVD) 2018-01-16 (from $11.70)
Graphic novel
    The Cat Returns - Picture Book (GN 1) 2007-10-02 (from $13.49)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroyuki Morita
Script: Reiko Yoshida
Storyboard: Hiroyuki Morita
Music: Yūji Nomi
Original Manga: Aoi Hiiragi
Character Design: Satoko Morikawa
Art Director: Naoya Tanaka
Animation Director:
Ei Inoue
Kazutaka Ozaki
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Hayashi
Director of Photography: Kentarō Takahashi
Advertising Producer:
Ai Nakanishi (Major)
Emi Kagawa (Major)
Hiroi Hosokawa (Major)
Hiroyuki Orihara (Major)
Masaru Tsuchiya (Major)
Michiyo Koyanagi (Major)
Mieko Hara (Major)
Mika Watanabe (Major)
Misa Hirano (Major)
Morikazu Wakizaka (Major)
Naoto Okamura (Major)
Nozomi Fukuda (Major)
Ryohei Okubo (Major)
Shinpei Ise
Yasushi Kanno (Major)
Assistant Director: Kōjirō Tsuruoka
Assistant producer: Tomohiko Ishii
Assistant Unit Director:
Junya Saito
Yasushi Imai
Yoichi Senzui
Background Color Adjustment: Kanako Takahashi
Character Merchandise Development:
Koichi Asano
Mika Yasuda
Rieko Izutsu
Tomomi Imai
Chief Production Manager:
Naoya Fujimaki
Seiji Okuda
Color design: Osamu Mikasa
Color Management System:
Kōhei Endō
Tetsuya Yamai
Digital Art Enhancement: Keiko Itogawa
Digital Camera & Composite Supervisor: Kentarō Takahashi
Digital Optical Recording: Noboru Nishio
Dolby Film Consultant:
Mikio Mori
Tsutomu Kawahigashi
Editing: Megumi Uchida (Seyama Editing Room)
Editing Assistant: Mutsumi Takemiya
Film Development, Timing: Hiroaki Hirabayashi
Foley Mixer: Shuji Inoue
Foley Recording: Kayoko Morozumi
Lab Management: Takehisa Kawamata
Layout Design: Satoko Morikawa
Music Copyright Manager: Takashi Nagai
Music Editing: Naoko Ono
Music Production: Kazumi Inaki
Music Production Management:
Kenjiro Kishi
Yuko Hisamatsu
Optical Recording: Futoshi Ueda
Orchestra Conductor: Hiroshi Kumagai
Overseas Promotion Manager:
Mikiko Takeda
Nao Amisaki
Steve Alpert
Post Production:
Noriko Tsushi
Tamaki Kojo
Production Administration Desk: Toshiyuki Kawabata
Production Affairs Manager: Shinsuke Nonaka
Production Committee:
Ayaka Beppu (NTV)
Daisuke Kadoya (NTV)
Daizou Suzuki (Mitsubishi)
Hiroe Hirata (Hakuhodo)
Hisayuki Annen (Mitsubishi)
Junko Itō (Tokuma Shoten)
Kazuaki Itō (NTV)
Kazuhiko Seta (TOHO)
Kenichi Hirano (Tokuma Shoten)
Masakazu Yuasa (Hakuhodo)
Mayumi Hirakata (NTV)
Minami Ichikawa (TOHO)
Minoru Muroi (Tokuma Shoten)
Mitsuo Fujimoto (Hakuhodo)
Naohiko Nishio (Mitsubishi)
Noboru Kobayashi (NTV)
Sanae Mitsugi (Tokuma Shoten)
Satoko Kariya (Mitsubishi)
Takahiro Yonezawa (Tokuma Shoten)
Takashi Satō (Hakuhodo)
Takashi Tanatsugu (NTV)
Takeshi Hashimoto (Mitsubishi)
Tatsuo Satō (Mitsubishi)
Tetsuo Nakazawa (Tokuma Shoten)
Tetsuya Yamamoto (Mitsubishi)
Tooru Itabashi (Mitsubishi)
Tooru Iwafuchi (Tokuma Shoten)
Toshio Hagiwara (NTV)
Tsuneo Toriyama (Hakuhodo)
Yasumasa Sone (Hakuhodo)
Yoshihisa Kawazoe (Hakuhodo)
Yoshio Yasunaga (Hakuhodo)
Yoshishige Shimatani (TOHO)
Yukiko Wada (Hakuhodo)
Production Desk:
Hideo Deguchi
Kenji Imura
Production producer: Chiyoshi Tanaka
Project Concept: Hayao Miyazaki
Public Relations: Shokichi Arai
Recording & Sound Mixing: Makoto Sumiya
Recording engineer: Akihiko Oono
Sound Effects: Tōru Noguchi
Special Effects: Toyohiko Sakakibara
Supervising Manager: Miyuki Shimamiya
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
Trailer Production: Keiichi Itagaki
Japanese companies
Advertising: Major, Inc.
Animation Production: Studio Ghibli
Audio Recording: KiKi
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
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
Trailer Production: Gal Enterprise
English cast
English staff
Co-Director: Ned Lott
Executive producer: Rick Dempsey
Producer: Ned Lott

ADR Mixing: Doc Kane
Color Timing: Chris DeLaGuardia
Dialogue Recording:
Bill Higley
Bill Komar
Negative Cutting: Rick MacKay
Post-Production Coordinator: Cory Hansen
Post-Production Manager: David Candiff
Production Coordination: Vicki Rondou
Re-Recording Mixing: Tom Dahl
Studio Management: Randy Coppinger
Supervising ADR Editor: Petra Bach
Voice Casting: Ned Lott
Voice Direction: Rick Dempsey
English companies
Broadcaster: HDNet Movies (USA)
Internet Streaming:
HBO Max (USA)
Netflix (Worldwide, excl. USA and Japan)
Negative Cutting: Buena Vista Negative Cutting
Prints: Technicolor
Subtitles: Aura
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
Brigitte Bergès as Haru's mother
Emilie Rault as Haru
Evelyne Grandjean as Natorn
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

Catherine Conet (Belgium)
David Manet (Belgium)
Fanny Roy (Belgium)
Guylaine Gibert (Belgium)
Julie Basecqz (Belgium)
Laurent Chauvet (Belgium)
Lydia Cherton (Belgium)
Marie Van R (Belgium)
Nessym Guetat (Belgium)
Sébastien Hebrant (Belgium)
Véronique Fyon (Belgium)
French companies
Broadcaster:
Canal +
Canal + Family (from November 2007)
Ciné Cinema Famiz (from February 2009)
Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Juan Alfonso Arenas (Spain dub; Netflix)
Translation:
Bárbara Pesquer (Spain dub; Cameo)
Natalia Gascón (Spain dub; Netflix)
Verónica Calafell (Catalan dub)
ADR Script: Natalia Gascón (Spain dub; Netflix)

Mix Engineer: Carlos de Vicente (Spain dub; Netflix)
Project Coordination: Adrián del Pozo López (Spain dub; Netflix)
Subtitle Translation: Laura Gago (Netflix; Spain)
Carlos Becerril as Toto
Diego Brizzi as Baron (Argentine dub)
Elvira García as Haru Yoshioka (Catalan dub)
Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Baró (Catalan dub)
Gerardo García as Baron
Jordi Ribes as Baron (Spain dub; Cameo)
Juan Amador Pulido as Baron (Spain dub; Netflix)
Mariana Ortiz as Haru
Mariela Alvarez as Haru (Argentine dub)
Meritxell Ané as Haru Yoshioka (Spain dub; Cameo)
Moises Palacios as Rey de los gatos
Patricia Mainou as Naoko Yoshioka
Sandra Villa as Haru Yoshioka (Spain dub; Netflix)

Alberto Mieza as Muta (Spain dub; Cameo)
Alex Meseguer as Natori (Catalan dub)
Cesc Martínez as Príncep Lune (Catalan dub)
Domenech Farell as Muta (Catalan dub)
Eva Ordeig as Yuki (Catalan dub)
Gabriel Jiménez as Muta (Spain dub; Netflix)
Jordi Filbà as Toto (Catalan dub)
Jordi Vila as Rei Gat (Catalan dub)
Julia Chalmeta as Naoko Yoshioko (Catalan dub)
Mariano Chiesa as Muta (Argentine dub)
Mario De Candia as
Rey Gato (Argentine dub)
Toto (Argentine dub)
Mariona Bosch as Hiromi (Catalan dub)
Marta Estrada as Natoru (Catalan dub)

Alejandra Bacciato as Old Lady (Argentine dub)
Alexia Lorrio as Natoru (Spain dub; Netflix)
Angela Villanueva as Natoru
Antonio Villar as Natori (Spain dub; Netflix)
César Martín as Toto (Spain dub; Netflix)
Desirée Álvarez as Yuki (Spain dub; Netflix)
Diana Torres as Naoko Yoshioka (Spain dub; Netflix)
Diego Brizzi as Natoru (Argentine dub)
Diego del Arco as Machida (Spain dub; Netflix)
Edson Matus as Prince Lune
Emiliano Dionisi as
Machida (Argentine dub)
Príncipe Lune (Argentine dub)
Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Natori (Spain dub; Cameo)
Gaby Ugarte as Yuki
Georgina Sanchez as Hiromi
Iris Lago as Hiromi (Spain dub; Cameo)
Jorge Santos as King's adviser
Juan Alfonso Arenas as Lune (Spain dub; Netflix)
Luciana Falcon as
Hiromi (Argentine dub)
Yuki (Argentinian dub)
Luis Mas as King of the Cats (Spain dub; Netflix)
Maria Rosa Guillén as Natoru (Spain dub; Cameo)
Mariano Chiesa as Teacher (Argentine dub)
Pilar Morales as Yuki (Spain dub; Cameo)
Ramón Rocabayera as
Professor (Spain dub; Cameo)
Toto (Spain dub; Cameo)
Ricardo Alanis as Voice Over (Argentine dub)
Sara Iglesias as Hiromi (Spain dub; Netflix)
Sebastián Costa as Natori (Argentine dub)
Silvia Aira as
Chika (Argentine dub)
Naoko Yoshioka (Argentine dub)
Silvia Castelló as Naoko Yoshioka (Spain dub; Cameo)
Toni Mora as Prince Lume (Spain dub; Cameo)
Victor Iturrioz as King of the Cats (Spain dub; Cameo)

Elena de Maeztu (Spain dub; Netflix)
Eugenio Roldán (Spain dub; Netflix)
Ivan Canovas (Catalan dub)
Iván de Pedro (Spain dub; Netflix)
Juan Navarro Torello (Spain dub; Netflix)
Marta Górriz (Spain dub; Netflix)
Olga Supervia (Spain dub; Cameo)
Oriol de Balle (Catalan dub)
Silvia Castelló (Spain dub; Cameo)
Victoria Ramos (Catalan dub)
Spanish companies
ADR Production: BTI Studios (Netflix)
Broadcaster:
Canal CinemaPlus (Latin America)
Canal RCN (Colombia)
Canal UCR
Cinema + (Colombia)
Cinemax Latin America
Discovery Kids (Latin America; Argentine dub)
HBO Latin America
Super3 (Televisió de Catalunya)
Teleantioquia (Colombia )
Telepacífico (Colombia)
TVE (clan tv)
Distributor:
Babilla Ciné (Colombia | Theatrical)
Cameo (Spain)
Dubbing Studio:
Sonoblok (Spain dub; Cameo)
Tecnison (Spain dub; Netflix)
DVD Distribution: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Internet Streaming:
Canal RCN (Colombia)
Netflix
Theatrical Releaser: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Catalan dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Translation: Francesco Nicodemo
Executive producer: Romina Franzini

Dialogues: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Dubbing Assistant: Antonella Bartolomei
Dubbing Engineer: Ivan Facchini
Mixing: Andrea Pochini
Italian companies
Distributor: Lucky Red
Dubbing: SEFIT-CDC
Internet Streaming: Mediaset Infinity
Sound: SEFIT-CDC
German staff
German cast
(none)
Martin Umbach as Baron

Gudo Hoegel as Muta

Kai Taschner as Toto
Susanne von Medvey as Natoru
Thomas Fritsch as Katzenkönig
German companies
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Dutch cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Distributor: Monolith Films
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese cast
Portuguese staff
Dubbing Director: Jorge Barcellos

Casting: Jorge Barcellos
Adriana Torres as Haru (Rio de Janeiro version)
Armando Tiraboschi as Barão
Letícia Quinto as Haru
Marco Ribeiro as Barão (Rio de Janeiro version)

Angelica Santos as Yuki
Dado Monteiro as Lune
Eudes Carvalho as Natori
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

Marco Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro)
Portuguese companies
ADR Production: Bright Way Productions
Broadcaster: HBO Family
Distributor: Europa Filmes
Dubbing Studio: Sigma
Internet Streaming:
KinoPop
Netflix (subtitled)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Distributor: Deltamac Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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