Neko no ongaeshi

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 Whisper of the Heart (1995)), the girl visits the Cat Kingdom and narrowly escapes again. Written by castipiani Neko no ongaeshi is a 2002 Japanese Japanese-language Animation Adventure film starring Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Tetsu Watanabe, Yosuke Saito, Aki Maeda, Tetsur Tamba and Hikari Yono. The movie is inspired from The Cat Returns by Aoi Hiiragi. Studio Ghibli was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Toshio Suzuki and Nozomu Takahashi. The movie is directed by Hiroyuki Morita. Toho acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Neko no ongaeshi was released on 19th July 2002 and takes a screen time of 75 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Neko no ongaeshi was made on a budget of $20 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $54 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Reiko Yoshida. Cinematography was done by Kentaro Takahashi and editing by Megumi Uchida. The music was composed by Yuji Nomi.
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