The Adventures of Milo and Otis
| The Adventures of Milo and Otis 子猫物語 |
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Original Japanese theatrical poster.
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| Directed by | Masanori Hata |
| Produced by | Masuru Kakutani Satoru Ogata |
| Written by | Masanori Hata |
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| Cinematography | Hideo Fujii Shinji Tomita |
| Edited by | Chizuko Osada |
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Toho Company, Ltd. (Japan) Columbia Pictures (United States) |
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92 minutes (Japan) 77 minutes (United States) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese English (United States) |
| Box office | $13.3 million (US) |
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 Japaneseadventure 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 June 27, 1986. Columbia Pictures removed 15 minutes from the original film and released a shorter English-language version, narrated by Dudley Moore, on August 25, 1989.
The film opens in 1986 on Nippon Farm with a mother cat named Moth Ari who has given birth to kittens. One of the kittens is named Milo ("Chatran" (チャトラン Chatoran?) in the Japanese version), and has a habit of being too curious and getting himself into trouble. He finds a pug-nosed pug puppy named Otis ("Poosky" (プー助 Pūsuke?) in the Japanese version), and they soon become friends. When Milo is playing inside a box floating in the river, he accidentally drifts downstream. Otis runs after Milo. Milo goes on many adventures, escaping one incident after another.
He encounters Bear, escapes from Raven that infested Deadwood Swamp, steals a dead muskrat from Fox, follows a train-track of a train named Nippon Bearway to the home of Deer, who shelters him, sleeps in the nest with Owl, stays for a while with Pig and her piglets, catches a fish, only to have it stolen by Racoon, is mobbed the Seagulls, and evades Bear, then Snake, then falls into an old pit.
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