He tells her the doors of the Cat Bureau will be open for her again if the need ever arises.
After she rejects the King's marriage proposal outright, Muta tells Haru, "I respect a woman who stands up for herself," and proceeds to help her escape from the King's soldiers.Įventually, the Baron, Haru and Muta escape the cats' realm, with the aid of Prince Lune and Toto, and Haru discovers her true self, telling the Baron how much she has come to like him. In her childhood, Haru had saved Yuki from starvation by giving her the fish crackers she was eating, and thus, Yuki has now repaid her kindness.
Haru learns that the strange voice who had advised her to go to the Cat Bureau was Yuki's. Muta is revealed to be Renaldo Moon, a notorious criminal in the Kingdom (having devoured a whole lake of fish in one session). Prince Lune and his guards return to the Cat Kingdom, revealing the King was not acting on his behalf and that he planned on proposing to Yuki.
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The King goes through a series of efforts to keep them in the kingdom long enough for Haru to remain trapped in her cat- form his ultimate plan is still to force her to become his daughter-in-law. After Yuki shows them an escape tunnel, Haru, the Baron, and Muta move through a maze to a tower, which contains a portal to Haru's world. When the Baron is discovered and is forced to fight the guards, he and Haru are helped by Yuki, a white cat maiden in the palace who had previously tried to warn Haru to leave the Cat Kingdom. He reveals to her that the more she loses herself in the kingdom, the more cat-like she will become, and that she has to rediscover her true self. At the feast, the Baron (in disguise) dances with Haru as part of the entertainment. The King hopes that she will make a suitable bride for the Prince. She begins to slowly turn into a cat (with tan paws, ears, nose, tail, and whiskers for a second, she also gets fangs), though she still remains mostly human. Haru is treated to a feast at the castle of the Cat King. 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 they find the entrance to the Cat Kingdom on Earth: five lakes forming a cat's paw. Muta leads her there to meet Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (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 hears a kind, female voice, which tells her to seek out Muta, a large white cat and to get directions to the Cat Bureau from him. As a thanks, the cats give Haru gifts of catnip and mice, and she is offered the Prince's hand in marriage. The cat she saved turns out to be Lune, Prince of the Cat Kingdom. One day, she saves a cat from being hit by a truck on a busy road. Haru Yoshioka is a shy but noble high school student who has a suppressed ability to talk with cats. GKIDS re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on Januunder a new deal with Studio Ghibli. It received an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival. This is Hiroyuki Morita's first and only film so far as director for Studio Ghibli.Ī spin-off of Whisper of the Heart, it was theatrically released in Japan on Jthrough Toho and in 2005 in the United States through Walt Disney Home Entertainment. It stars Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Tetsu Watanabe, Yosuke Saito, Aki Maeda and Tetsurō Tamba. "The Cat's Repayment") is a 2002 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiroyuki Morita, produced by Toshio Suzuki and Nozomu Takahashi, written by Reiko Yoshida, based on the manga The Cat Returns by Aoi Hiiragi, with music by Yuji Nomi, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Hakuhodo, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho and distributed by the latter company. The Cat Returns ( Japanese: 猫の恩返し, Hepburn: Neko no Ongaeshi, lit.
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