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Poster artwork · TMDb
About The Cat Returns
Overview
Its fantasy and adventure classifications provide a useful comparison with other animated features on this shelf. The Hiroyuki Morita director credit keeps that comparison specific without collapsing different films into a studio stereotype. The film identity is separate from any provider’s current edition or dub. The structured source identifies this as a film with a release year of 2002 and a listed runtime of 75 minutes. Credited creators in the imported record: Hiroyuki Morita.
At a glance
Release date
19 July 2002
Format
Anime film
Runtime
75 minutes
Genres
drama anime and mangafantasy anime and mangaadventure anime and mangafantasy filmchildren's filmdrama filmcoming-of-age film
Credited creators
Hiroyuki Morita
Our viewing notes
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Le Royaume des chats (fr) · 猫的报恩 (zh) · Haru en el reino de los gatos (es) · 猫の恩返し (ja) · 고양이의 보은 (ko) · Baron: The Cat Returns (en) · Cat Returns (en) · Neko no Ongaeshi (en)
Runtime
75 minutes
Credited creators
Hiroyuki Morita
Country labels
Japan
Genres
drama anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga, fantasy film, children's film, drama film, coming-of-age film
Source language labels
Japanese. These do not establish a streaming dub or subtitle offer.
Facts, sources & corrections
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