She tries to tell the king why she can't marry the Prince: 1. The Prince does not know about this, in fact he is still away on business. She does tell the King she does not want to get married even though the King understood that she had agreed. While giving a new dress, Haru meets the king and Muta is helping himself to refreshments. However the servant comes along and says the King wants to meet her, she brings Muta along with her. When arriving there Haru is amazed at what she sees but a white cat with a red bow who tells Haru she must leave. Haru is whisked away to the Cat Kingdom to be married off to Prince Lune by the Cat King. Natoru convincing Haru to live in the Kingdom of Cats The Baron and his crow friend find the entrance to the Cat Kingdom on Earth: Five lakes forming a cat's paw. Soon after meeting them, Haru and Muta are forcefully taken to the Cat Kingdom, leaving Toto and the Baron in the human world to follow the group from the air.
Haru meets Muta, a large white cat the voice told her to seek for directions, who leads her there to meet the Baron (the same Baron from Whisper of the Heart), who is a cat figurine given life by the work of his artist, and Toto, a stone raven who comes to life much like the Baron. Wanting none of this, Haru even starts to freak out about marrying a cat and even the fact that they are going to drag her off to the kingdom themselves, Haru hears a kind, female voice, which tells her to seek the Cat Bureau. He tries to assure that they were trying to make her happy, he also invites her to the kingdom and she is offered the Prince's hand in marriage (although this was in the King's idea). Later that day she chews out the king's servant for all the gifts because they only appealed to cats and she tells him they haven't made things better for her. The are gifts of Lacrosse sticks, cattails, catnip and mice. As thanks, the Cat King gives Haru a list of gifts she'll receive. As it turns out, the cat's name is Lune, and he is the Prince of the Cat Kingdom. That night, the king of the Cat Kingdoms comes to thank her for saving his only son. Later she tells her mother and her mother remembers how Haru once said she could talk to cats especially when she was younger, she gave a stray cat some fish crackers.
After the cat leaves, Haru tells her friend that the cat spoke but she doesn't believe Haru. The cat stands up and thanks Haru for saving him Haru is too surprised to even respond. One day, she saves a Russian Blue odd-eyed cat from being hit by a truck on a busy road. Haru, a quiet and shy high school student who has a suppressed ability to talk with cats. Haru rescues Prince Lune from an accident. GKIDS re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on January 16, 2018, under a new deal with Studio Ghibli. The film earned a box office revenue of ¥6.46 billion, and was the top-grossing film of 2002, while it shipped an estimated 720,000 units on DVD and VHS as of May 2007. It received an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival. The poster's advertising slogan is "Isn't it okay to become a cat?" (猫になっても、いいんじゃないッ?). This is the only film so far to be directed by Hiroyuki Morita. The voice actor for the Baron was changed from Shigeru Tsuyuguchi to Yoshihiko Hakamada due to wanting to give the character a "youthful feeling" while Yoko Honna, who voiced Shizuku from Whisper of the Heart returns as Haru's classmate Chika. It was screened in theaters alongside Ghiblies Episode 2.īased on Baron: The Cat Returns, a manga spin-off of Whisper of the Heart written by Aoi Hiiragi that was originally planned as a 20-minute promotional animated short for a cat-themed theme park starring Moon. ¥6.46 billion (USD$54 million) The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し , Neko no Ongaeshi, literally The Cat's Repayment) is an animated film directed by Hiroyuki Morita and produced by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Hakuhodo, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho and was released on July 19, 2002.
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