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The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Original Japanese theatrical release affiche.
Directed by	Masanori Hata
Written by	Masanori Hata Mark Saltzman (English version)
Produced by	Masuru Kakutani Satoru Ogata
Narrated by	Shigeru Tsuyuki (Nippon) Dudley Moore (United States)
Cinematography	Hideo Fujii Shinji Tomita
Edited by	Chizuko Osada
Music by	Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan) Michael Boddicker (The states)
Production company	Fuji Television Network
Distributed by	Toho (Nippon) Columbia Pictures (U.s.a.)
Release dates	July 12, 1986 (1986-07-12) (Nihon) August 25, 1989 (1989-08-25) (United states of america)
Running time	92 minutes (Japan) 77 minutes (Us)
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese English (Us)
Budget	¥800 million ^[1]
Box function	¥9.viii billion (Nippon) $104 million (Japan/The states) 12 one thousand thousand tickets (Nippon/US/EU)

The Adventures of Milo and Otis ( 子猫物語 , Koneko Monogatari , lit. "A Kitten's Story"; alternate English language title, The Adventures of Chatran ) is a 1986 Japanese^[2] chance comedy-drama pic about ii 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 picture show and released a shorter English-language version, written past Mark Saltzman^[3] and narrated by Dudley Moore, on August 25, 1989.

Plot [edit]

The film opens on Nippon Subcontract, with a mother true cat who has given birth to kittens. 1 of the kittens is named Milo, or Chatran in the Japanese version (チャトラン ( Chatoran ), literally Chocolate-brown Tiger), and has a addiction of beingness too curious and getting himself into trouble. He finds a pug puppy named Otis, or Poosky in the Japanese version (プー助 ( Pūsuke )), and they shortly go friends. When Milo is hiding inside a box floating in the river, it breaks loose and he accidentally drifts downstream. Otis runs after Milo, who himself goes on many adventures, escaping one obstacle after another.

Milo encounters a bear, escapes from a raven and Deadwood Swamp, steals a expressionless muskrat from a play tricks, follows a railroad called Nihon Bearway to the home of a deer who shelters him, sleeps in a nest with an owl, stays for a while with a sus scrofa and her piglets, catches a fish and is robbed of it by a raccoon, is mobbed past seagulls, and evades another conduct, so a ophidian, earlier falling into a deep pit.

For his part, Otis follows Milo throughout, usually simply an hour behind and less than a mile out of range. Finally, the two grab upward with 1 another. While Milo is in the pigsty, Otis pulls him out by means of a rope. Milo and Otis are reunited, and soon find mates of their own: Joyce, a white cat, for Milo; and Sondra, a French pug, for Otis. Later, they briefly part ways and raise offspring of their own. Later, Milo, Otis, Joyce, and Sondra (along with their litters) happily find their way back together through the forest to their farm as the credits roll.

Cast [edit]

All characters are voiced by the narrator, Shigeru Tsuyuki (Japanese) and Dudley Moore (English).

Milo
Otis
Milo'due south mother
Gloria
Gloria's chick
Bear
Fob
Deer
Owl
Pig
Raccoon
Snake
Joyce
Sondra

Product [edit]

Director Masanori Hata and associate managing director Kon Ichikawa edited the film together from 74 hours of footage (400,000 ft or 120,000 m of film), shot over a menses of iv years.^[iv]

Soundtrack [edit]

The original Japanese soundtrack, released as The Adventures of Chatran: Original Soundtrack, was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and included "Koneko Monogatari" ( 子猫物語 ), a theme song performed past Keiko Yoshinaga. During the promotion of the motion picture in Japan, the song "Neko Jita Gokoro mo Koi no Uchi" ( 猫舌ごころも恋のうち , "My Heart Has a Dislike for Beloved", lit. I with a cat natural language heart toward romance), originally recorded by Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi for the Fuji Television set anime series High Schoolhouse Kimengumi, was used in commercials for the film.^[5]

The musical score for the English language-language version was composed by Michael Boddicker. Music was borrowed from Elmer Bernstein'due south score to To Impale a Mockingbird (specifically the two cues, "Roll in the Tire" and "Peek-a-boo" with modest changes in the music), and John Williams' score to The Witches of Eastwick (using these cues "The Township of Eastwick" and "Have Some other Cherry!", over again with small-scale changes in the music).^{[ citation needed ]} The vocal "Walk Outside", written by Dick Tarrier, is performed by Dan Crow in the opening shots and terminate credits.

The English-linguistic communication version of the film also contained music past classical composers including:

"Soldier'southward Dance" from William Tell by Gioachino Rossini
"Serenade" by Franz Schubert
Appalachian Spring past Aaron Copland
"Of Foreign Lands and People" from Scenes from Babyhood by Robert Schumann
King Cotton by John Philip Sousa
"Auf dem Wasser zu singen", D 774 by Franz Schubert
"The Elephant" from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens
"People with Long Ears" from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns
"Dialogue Between the Air current and the Waves" from La Mer by Claude Debussy
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257 by Johann Strauss II
"How Beautifully Blue the Sky" by Gilbert and Sullivan
Flit No. 16 in A-flat Major, Op. posth. by Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu in B-flat past Franz Schubert
"Berceuse" from Dolly Suite, Op. 56 past Gabriel Fauré
"Bourrée" from Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 by Edvard Grieg
"Symphony in D Minor" by Cesar Franck
Flute Sonata in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031 past Johann Sebastian Bach

Video game adaptation [edit]

In 1986, to tie in with the original Japanese version of the film, a video game was released for the Nippon-exclusive Famicom Deejay Organisation.^[6]

Release [edit]

The moving-picture show was shown during the film market at the 1986 Cannes Flick Festival before opening on 200 screens in Nihon on July 12, 1986.^[seven] ^[8]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

It was the number-one Japanese moving-picture show on the domestic market in 1986, earning ¥v.4 billion in distribution income that twelvemonth.^[9] It grossed a total of ¥9.viii billion ($90,822,000) in Japan.^[10] ^[11] At the time, it was the 3rd highest-grossing motion picture e'er in Japan, beaten only by Eastward.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Antarctica (1983).^[10]

In the United states of america, The Adventures of Milo and Otis grossed $13.3 million,^[12] adding up to a combined $104,122,000 grossed in Nippon and the United States.

Adjusted for aggrandizement, the movie grossed the equivalent of $226 meg in Japan as of 2021^[update] ^[11] and $29 million in the United States as of 2021, for a combined inflation-adjusted $255 1000000 in Japan and the United States.

In terms of box office admissions, the film sold 7.5 million tickets in Japan, 3.two 1000000 tickets in the United States,^[13] and 1,318,750 tickets in Frg and France,^[14] for a combined 12,018,750 tickets sold in Nihon, North America and Mainland Europe.

Home media [edit]

In 2010, the movie's DVD version sold 810,334 units and grossed $5,464,010 in the United States.^[xv] Information technology was released on Blu-ray on January 24, 2012.^[16]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Reviews for the Usa version were positive, with an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews.^[17]

Animal cruelty allegations [edit]

When the moving-picture show was outset released,^{[ citation needed ]} several Australian animal rights organizations raised allegations of creature cruelty during filming and called for a boycott. The Sunday Mail reported at the time that Animate being Liberation Queensland founder Jacqui Kent alleged the killing of more than than xx kittens during production and added that she was disturbed by reports from Europe which alleged that other animals had been injured, as in ane case where a producer had allegedly broken a cat'southward paw to make it appear unsteady on its feet. Other scenes that were the source of controversy were a scene of a cat falling off a cliff and trying to climb dorsum upwards, and a scene of a pug fighting a bear, all of which were deleted from the American version. Kent said her organization had a number of complaints from people who had seen the picture and were concerned that information technology could not have been fabricated without cruelty.^[18] The Tasmanian and Victorian branches of the RSPCA also alleged abuse.^[19]

The picture was reported to take the approval of the American Humane Lodge, despite non having their officers present during filming.^[18] The American Humane Association attempted to investigate cruelty rumors through "contacts in Europe who usually take information on movies throughout the world". While noting that the contacts had also heard the allegations, they were unable to verify them. The system also reported, "We have tried through humane people in Japan, and through some other Japanese producer to decide if these rumors are true, only everything has led to a dead finish." The same study noted that several Japanese Humane Societies allowed their names to be used in connexion with the film and that the film "shows no animals beingness injured or harmed."^[4]

Awards [edit]

The Japanese Academy (1987)
- Won: Popularity Award - Virtually Popular Film
- Nominated: Award of the Japanese Academy - Best Music Score (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Immature Artist Awards (1990)
- Nominated: Immature Artist Honor - All-time Family Movement Pic – Adventure

Notes [edit]

^ "Fuji Purring For Good Reason". Variety. May 7, 1986. p. 391.
^ 子猫物語(1986) [Koneko Monogatari (1986)] (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
^ "The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986) - IMDb".
^ ^a ^b Milo and Otis, American Humane Association; archived version
^ 子猫物語 [Koneko Monogatari] (in Japanese). Fujisankei. June 27, 1986. From the picture show credits.
^ 子猫物語まとめ [ファミコン] [Koneko Monogatari on the Famicom] (in Japanese). Famitsu.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
^ Segers, Frank (May 21, 1986). "Film Reviews: Koneko Monogatari". Variety. p. 25.
^ Segers, Frank (July 24, 1986). "Pet Pic To Unseat 'Rocky Iv' At Nihon B.O.". Daily Multifariousness. p. 9.
^ "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1986-nen" (in Japanese). Motility Moving picture Producers Association of Nippon. Retrieved v Feb 2011.
^ ^a ^b 歴代興収ベスト100 [All-fourth dimension box-office top 100] (in Japanese). Kogyo Tsushinsha. Archived from the original on 2012-06-17. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Koneko Monogatari: Recettes" [Koneko Monogatari: Receipts]. JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 12 April 2022.
^ The Adventures of Milo and Otis at Box Office Mojo Retrieved 3 June 2013
^ "«Приключения Майло и Отиса» (Koneko monogatari, 1986)". Kinopoisk (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 April 2022.
^ "Koneko Monogatari". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved nineteen March 2022.
^ "The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1989)". JP'southward Box-Function . Retrieved 15 February 2019.
^ The Adventures of Milo and Otis Blu-ray Release Date January 24, 2012 , retrieved 2020-01-thirty
^ "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" . Rotten Tomatoes/Flixster. Retrieved 2013-09-01 .
^ ^a ^b Gillespie, P. (April 15, 1990). "Cat Cruelty Claim Over Kids' Motion-picture show". The Dominicus Mail.
^ Teale, Brandt (September eighteen, 1990). "RSPCA raises Milo and Otis fears". Hobart Mercury.

External links [edit]

The Adventures of Milo and Otis at IMDb
The Adventures of Milo and Otis at Rotten Tomatoes
The Adventures of Milo and Otis at Box Office Mojo
The Adventures of Milo and Otis at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Milo_and_Otis

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