Director Hiroyuki Morita said in the interview, "...when I didn't know how to do it, I just hoped to show a very vivid Haru, her loss, fall and wandering. A line of Haru in the original inspired me, she Said, maybe I will get along more with a group of cats. She heard that the country of cats is a beautiful place. Some pictures began to appear in her mind. She was really free to imagine and felt that there must be a better place. Life is waiting for her. These are the core of the movie. Haru is not a very planned or very hardworking girl. According to the setting of Yoshida Reiko (original author). Haru is natural and not pretentious. She treats people purely and positively. Wu Wu does not express herself in a calculated manner. Even if she makes a lot of small mistakes, these are the inevitables of life. And she still works hard to move forward. I think this is very beautiful, and this feeling is just me. I want to put it in the movie..."
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Ghibli’s original plan was just a video project about cats. After seeing Morita’s storyboard, Toshio Suzuki thought that this ordinary passerby, familiar with the old acquaintance, Haru would take the audience Lead into the movie theater. So Grandpa Gong decided to make it into a full-length movie
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