Fresh
Catchy entertainment for kids and adults...
Lisa Nesselson, Variety
The Cat Returns
It's not so bad being a cat, now is it?
2002 · 1h 15m · G
Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Hiroyuki Morita
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hiroyuki Morita Director
- Chizuru Ikewaki as Haru Yoshioka (voice)
- Yoshihiko Hakamada as Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (voice)
- Aki Maeda as Yuki (voice)
- Takayuki Yamada as Lune (voice)
- Hitomi Sato as Hiromi (voice)
- Kenta Satoi as Natori (voice)
- Mari Hamada as Natoru (voice)
- Tetsu Watanabe as Muta (voice)
- Yousuke Saito as Toto (voice)
- Kumiko Okae as Haru's Mother (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[Director] Morita has a slightly cruder, more realistic sense of the world and its looniness than does Miyazaki, and you can see where The Cat Returns moves on a different track even as it pays homage to Japan's current animation master.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh
Another enjoyable fantasy adventure from Studio Ghibli.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
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