The Adventures of Milo and Otis | |
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Directed by | Masanori Hata Kon Ichikawa |
Written by | Masanori Hata Mark Saltzman (English version) |
Produced by | Masuru Kakutani Satoru Ogata |
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Cinematography | Hideo Fujii Shinji Tomita |
Edited by | Chizuko Osada |
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Distributed by | Toho (Japan) Columbia Pictures (United States) |
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Running time | 92 minutes (Japan) 77 minutes (United States) |
Country | Japan |
Languages | Japanese English (United States) |
Budget | ¥800 million[1] |
Box office | ¥9.8 billion (Japan) $104 million (Japan/US) 12 million tickets (Japan/US/EU) |
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (子猫物語, Koneko Monogatari, lit. "A Kitten's Story"; alternate English title, The Adventures of Chatran) is a 1986 Japanese[2] adventure comedy-drama film about two animals: Milo, an orange tabby cat, and Otis, a pug. The original Japanese version, narrated by Shigeru Tsuyuki and with poetry recitation by Kyōko Koizumi, was released on July 12, 1986. Columbia Pictures removed 15 minutes from the original film and released a shorter English-language version, written by Mark Saltzman[3] and narrated by Dudley Moore, on August 25, 1989.