The Adventures of Milo and Otis

The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMasanori Hata
Kon Ichikawa
Written byMasanori Hata
Produced byMasuru Kakutani
Satoru Ogata
Narrated byShigeru Tsuyuki
CinematographyHideo Fujii
Shinji Tomita
Edited byChizuko Osada
Music byRyuichi Sakamoto
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • July 12, 1986 (1986-07-12)
Running time
92 minutes (Japan)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥800 million
Box office¥9.8 billion

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 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 and narrated by Dudley Moore, on August 25, 1989.