The Adventures of Milo and Otis

The Adventures of Milo and Otis
The Adventures of Milo & Otis poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMasanori Hata
Kon Ichikawa
Written byMasanori Hata
Mark Saltzman (English version)
Produced byMasuru Kakutani
Satoru Ogata
Narrated by
CinematographyHideo Fujii
Shinji Tomita
Edited byChizuko Osada
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byToho (Japan)
Columbia Pictures (United States)
Release dates
  • July 12, 1986 (1986-07-12) (Japan)
  • August 25, 1989 (1989-08-25) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes (Japan)
77 minutes (United States)
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
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.

  1. ^ "Fuji Purring For Good Reason". Variety. May 7, 1986. p. 391.
  2. ^ 子猫物語(1986) [Koneko Monogatari (1986)] (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
  3. ^ "The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986) - IMDb". IMDb.