A young girl rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of gifts and favors from the King of the Cats, who also wants her to marry his son, Prince Lune. 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 earlier anime “Whisper of the Heart”), the girl visits the Cat Kingdom and narrowly escapes again.

Neko no ongaeshi (2002)
  • Rating: (9,645 votes)
  • Taglines:Journey to another land. » Believe in magic... Discover the secret of another land. »
  • Runtime:75 minutes
  • Director: Hiroyuki Morita
  • Country:Japan
  • Actors:
    Haru (voice)
    Chizuru Ikewaki
    Baron (voice)
    Yoshihiko Hakamada
    Yuki (voice)
    Aki Maeda
    Lune (voice)
    Takayuki Yamada
    Hiromi (voice)
    Hitomi Satô
    Natori (voice)
    Kenta Satoi
    Natoru (voice)
    Mari Hamada
    Muta (voice)
    Tetsu Watanabe
    Toto (voice)
    Yôsuke Saitô
    Haru's Mother (voice)
    Kumiko Okae
  • Genres:Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
  • Producers:
    Hironori Aihara
    executive producer  
    Rick Dempsey
    executive producer  
    Koji Hoshino
    executive producer  
    Ned Lott
    producer  
    Takeyoshi Matsushita
    executive producer  
    Hayao Miyazaki
    executive producer  
    Toshio Suzuki
    producer  
    Nozomu Takahashi
    producer  
    Hideyuki Takai
    executive producer  
    Seiichirô Ujiie
    executive producer  
  • Plot: A young girl rescues a mysterious cat from traffic and soon finds herself the unwelcome recipient of gifts and favors from the King of the Cats, who also wants her to marry his son, Prince Lune. 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 earlier anime "Whisper of the Heart"), the girl visits the Cat Kingdom and narrowly escapes again. Written by castipiani
Neko no ongaeshi
  • User's comment:Simple but entertaining by swordplanet

    Short but sweet- is probably the best way to describe this movie. Unlike other epics created by studio ghibli, such as Nausicaa of the valley of the Wind and Spirited Away, this movie has a very simple story and feels more like a really long episode of a TV show rather than a movie. The characters are somewhat developed but there just wasn't much time to do so since the story felt rushed. However, this is still a very entertaining film full of subtle humor.

    The only gripe i have with this film is that the Disney DVD is DUBTITLED. Disney forgot to translate the movie and tries to pass the script for the English dub as the translated subtitles.


  • Quotes: Baron: Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear. Muta: That's enough, Baron. Turn it off. No one's impressed with your cheesy light show, okay? Haru: Thank you, Moo-ta...
  • Also known as: O Reino dos Gatos (Brazil - DVD title), O Reino dos Gatos (Portugal - imdb display title), Das Königreich der Katzen (Germany - imdb display title), Haru en el reino de los gatos (Spain - imdb display title), Katteprinsen (Norway - imdb display title), Kissojen valtakunta (Finland), Le royaume des chats (France), Macskák királysága (Hungary - imdb display title), Narzeczona dla kota (Poland), O gatos epistrefei (Greece - DVD title), The Cat Returns (International - English title),

  1. nick Says:
    December 29th, 2010 at 1:52 am

    this was a great film, actually funny at times. thank you for posting the link.

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