The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (1969)
March 18, 1969Release Date
The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (1969)
March 18, 1969Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Susumu Ishikawa
Pero (voice)
Toshiko Fujita
Pierre (voice)
Rumi Sakakibara
Princess Rose (voice)
Asao Koike
Lucifer (voice)
Kin'ya Aikawa
Killer Cat A (voice)
Isamu Tanonaka
Killer Cat B (voice)
Ado Mizumori
Killer Cat C (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura
Boss Mouse (voice)
Shun Yashiro
Raymond (voice)
Yoko Mizugaki
Little Mouse (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Daniel (voice)
Kiiton Masuda
King (voice)
Kimio Yabuki
Director / Producer
Seiichirou Uno
Music
Yasuji Mori
Animation Director
Salvatore Billitteri
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 18, 1969
Original Name長靴をはいた猫
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Genres
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The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Japanese: 長靴をはいた猫, Hepburn: Nagagutsu o Haita Neko, literally "Cat Who Wore Boots") is a 1969 Japanese animated action comedy musical film produced by Toei Animation and directed by Kimio Yabuki. The screenplay and lyrics, written by Hisashi Inōe and Morihisa Yamamoto, are based on the European fairy tale character Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault, expanded with elements of Alexandre Dumas-esque swashbuckling adventure and cartoon animal slapstick, with many other anthropomorphic animals in addition to the title character. The Toei version of the character himself is named Pero, after Perrault.
The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots was released in Japan on March 18, 1969. The film is particularly notable for giving Toei Animation its mascot and logo, and for its roll call of top key animators of the time: Yasuo Ōtsuka, Reiko Okuyama, Sadao Kikuchi, Yōichi Kotabe, Akemi Ōta, Hayao Miyazaki, and Akira Daikubara, supervised by animation director Yasuji Mori. They got relatively free rein and adequate support to create virtuosic and distinctive sequences, making it a key example of the Japanese model of division of labour in animation by which animators are assigned by scene rather than character. Most famous of these sequences is a chase across castle parapets animated in alternating cuts by Ōtsuka and Miyazaki, which would serve as the model for similar sequences in such later films as Miyazaki's feature directorial debut Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro and The Cat Returns (2002). Miyazaki is also the manga artist of a promotional manga adaptation of the film originally serialised in the Sunday Chūnichi Shimbun during 1969 and republished in 1984 in a book about the making of the film. The film was re-released 9 years later in the 1978 Summer Toei Manga Matsuri on July 22. It was released straight to television in the United States by AIP-TV.
Since becoming Toei Animation's mascot, Pero's face can be seen on the company's primary logo at the beginning or ending to some of Toei's other animated features, both from Japan and some of their outsourced work for other companies. In 2016, a new 3D on-screen logo featuring Pero was revealed in celebration of the company's 60th anniversary. The 3D on-screen logo without the 60th anniversary wordmark and the company's motto was used since 2019. The former on-screen logo is currently used as a print logo.