《猫的报恩》由池胁千鹤、袴田吉彦、丹波哲郎、前田亚季等参与配音。改编自漫画家柊葵的漫画，由森田宏幸执导动画电影，吉卜力工作室出品，于2002年7月19日在日本上映

该片讲述了一个平凡的17岁高中女生小春，偶然在上学路上解救下了一只小猫，这个小猫是猫王子，猫咪们为了答谢，想要让她当猫国王的妻子。猫咪们好心办坏事，给小春带来了麻烦事情。天亮之前不回人类世界，小春就要永远做猫，正不知如何解决之际，一个神秘的声音告诉她要去找男爵协助，男爵就在猫咪事务所。于是小春开启了一趟奇妙的探险故事，在和男伯爵相处的过程中，虽然人猫殊途，小春还是逐渐喜欢上了猫伯爵，在猫世界呆的久了，小春长出了猫耳朵毛胡子，最后，小春和猫伯爵拼命奔向迷宫出口，否则小春将变成猫。

"The Cat Returns" will be dubbed by Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Tetsuro Tamba, and Aki Maeda. Adapted from the manga by manga artist Hiroshi Kui, the animated film directed by Hiroyuki Morita, produced by Studio Ghibli, was released in Japan on July 19, 2002

The film tells the story of an ordinary 17-year-old high school girl, Xiaochun, who accidentally rescues a kitten on the way to school. The cat is the cat prince, and the cats want to make her the cat king's wife in order to thank her. The cats do bad things with good intentions and bring troubles to Xiaochun. If she doesn't return to the human world before dawn, Xiaochun will be a cat forever. When she doesn't know how to solve it, a mysterious voice tells her to seek help from the baron, who is in the cat office. So Xiaochun started a wonderful adventure story. In the process of getting along with the baron, although people and cats have different paths, Xiaochun gradually fell in love with the earl cat. After staying in the cat world for a long time, Xiaochun grew cat ears and beard. , Finally, Xiaochun and Earl the Cat desperately ran to the exit of the maze, otherwise Xiaochun would turn into a cat.