The Cat Returns

The Cat Returns

2002 · 1 hr 15 min · G

Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Directors

Hiroyuki Morita

Actors

  • Chizuru Ikewaki
  • Yoshihiko Hakamada
  • Aki Maeda

Credits: 2

Summary

After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.

More about this movie

A teenage girl rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of gifts and favors from The Cat King (Tetsurô Tanba and Tim Curry), who also wants her to marry his son, Prince Lune (Takayuki Yamada and Andrew Bevis). With the assistance of a fat, grouchy real cat and a an elegant cat statuette come to life (both characters featured in Studio Ghibli's Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)), the girl visits the Cat Kingdom and narrowly escapes again.