Subtitles: English, English captions Closed Captioned Japanese Voice Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki (Haru), Yoshihiko Hakamada (Baron), Tetsu Watanabe (Muta), Yôsuke Saitô (Toto), Tetsuro Tamba (Cat King), Aki Maeda (Yuki), Mari Hamada (Natoru), Kenta Satoi (Natori), Hiromi Sato (Hiromi), Kumiko Okae (Haru's Mother)ġ.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 (Japanese, English, French) Telecom Animation Film, Production I.G, and DR Movie helped animate the | Review Index | Studio Ghibli on Other Disney Animation Page | Disney's Special Edition DVDsĮnglish Voice Cast: Anne Hathaway (Haru), Cary Elwes (Baron Humbert von Gikkingen), Peter Boyle (Muta), Elliott Gould (Toto), Andy Richter (Natoru), Rene Auberjonois (Natori), Tim Curry (Cat King), Judy Greer (Yuki), Kristen Bell (Hiromi), Andrew Bevis (Prince Luna), Kristine Sutherland (Haru's Mother), Katia Coe (Little Haru) It became the second theatrical (third overall) Studio Ghibli feature to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Isao Takahata. Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki decided to produce a feature-length film based entirely on Morita's storyboard this was partly because Haru, the main character, had a "believable feel to her". Over a nine-month period he translated Hiiragi's Baron story into 525 pages of storyboards for what was to be The Cat Returns. Responsibility was given to Hiroyuki Morita, who had started as an animator in 1999 for the film My Neighbors the Yamadas. Miyazaki then took the existing work done by the "Cat Project" and used it as testing for future Ghibli directors - the short was now to be 45 minutes long. The theme park later canceled the project. Hiiragi was commissioned to create the manga equivalent of the short, which is called Baron: The Cat Returns (バロン 猫の男爵) and is published in English by Viz Media. Hayao Miyazaki wanted three key elements to feature in the short - these were the Baron, Muta (Moon) and a mysterious antique shop.
Studio Ghibli received a request from a Japanese theme park to create a 20-minute short starring cats. The Cat Returns began as the "Cat Project" in 1999. Although the girl's life had no magical elements, the film featured short fantasy scenes depicting that the girl was writing of the Baron, a character of her novel, which were so popular that an indirect sequel was made, featuring the Baron and another girl, a high school student, named Haru. In 1995, Studio Ghibli released a film entitled Whisper of the Heart, based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, of a girl writing a fantasy novel.
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