Where the original version was largely quiet, meditative, and yet unflinching in terms of the struggles and challenges the young cat and Pug puppy faced in the wild, the English-language version is boisterous, joyful, and chatty.
Rescripted by Mark Saltzman, heavily edited, given a new soundtrack, and with redubbed narration by English actor Dudley Moore, the film was released in America as The Adventures of Milo and Otis in August of 1989. Also called The Adventures of Chatran, the film centered on a tabby kitten, Chatran (pronounced “Sha-toh-ran”), and his puppy pal, a Pug named Pusuke (pronounced “Poos-kay”). Featuring limited narration interspersed with occasional poetry and a beautiful soundtrack by Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, the film took four years and more than 40 hours of footage to craft in its original form.
#The adventures of milo and otis movie
As a final recommendation, sit with your children and watch the movie with them: you will completely enjoy yourself.The brainchild of writer-director Masanori Hata, The Adventures of Milo and Otis debuted in Japan as Koneko Monogatari ( A Kitten’s Story) during the summer of 1986. It's a great movie, on a scale of one-to-ten (ten being the highest), I rate this a ten and endorse it. This is something which must be grasped so that children learn to function in society and not apart from it, especially the function of working together to "get what needs to be done, done."
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The real-life images brought to the screen by this movie mirrored genuine life as it is today: children grasped that this was not "make-believe" or "cartoon-like" and it provided them a working model of how to approach others and how not to approach others. Children comprehend that they have the ability to think clearly when working with others, that not all ideas are feasible (some ideas just don't work to their advantage, but are worth exploring), and that their accomplishment of tasks completion is not based solely upon one individual's desires, but rather, because of the teamwork inherent in the structure of meeting challenges to reach the desired outcome.Īs a mother, my perspective allowed me to view children entertained throughout the length of the movie, then stimulated to talk about what they'd seen, and discuss how they could follow Milo's and Otis' example in their own homes (as well as outside their homes). The movie inf orms children that as members of society they are will successfully reach individual and common goals by working with others to solve problems and issues which come up unexpectedly in life. They must rely upon each other to bring them to their happy ending. It is clear that by Milo and Otis working together as a team they overcome many obstacles in reaching their common goal. It mesmerized each individual child, and they asked to see it over and over again!Īs an educator, I view the value of this movie as a companion tool to advance the message that although life throws things in one's path, one can accomplish quite a bit if one speaks aloud about what is the problem (defining the issue) and asks for both feedback and help in obtaining resolution of the problem. This movie held the attention of children as young as two years old and that of children who are reaching adolescence.
Thanks for looking at my review of the Adventures of Milo and Otis.
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