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The Cat Returns
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #213
- IMDb #264
- Google retired #136
- Rotten Tomatoes #161
- Metacritic #193
- Letterboxd #230
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #181
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #182
- Metacritic Critics #159
- Metacritic Audience #239
- Criticker #110
- Douban #94
- Kinopoisk #123
- AlloCiné #264
- Trakt #178
Every rating
A quiet high school girl saves a cat from being hit by a truck, only to learn it is a prince from the Cat Kingdom. In their gratitude, the King of the Cats begins to orchestrate her marriage to the prince and her permanent transformation into a feline. She is whisked away to their magical realm and must find a way to escape her peculiar predicament.
Details
- Director
- Hiroyuki Morita
- Writer
- Reiko Yoshida
- Released
- 19 July 2002
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Rated
- G
- Box office
- $54.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Animation Kobe Theatrical Film Award 2002 | Animation Kobe Theatrical Film Award | Winner | |
| Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Excellence Award 2002 | Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Excellence Award | Winner |
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×| Animation Kobe Theatrical Film Award | Winner |
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