Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hiroyuki Morita directed the 2002 Japanese animated film The Cat Returns. He previously worked as an animator on the 1999 film My Neighbors the Yamadas and created 525 pages of storyboards over a nine-month period for this project.
The Cat Returns was released on the 20th of July 2002. It became the highest-grossing domestic film at the Japanese box office in 2002 and earned a total of 1.8 billion yen.
After Haru Yoshioka saved a cat from a truck, the feline revealed himself as Prince Lune of the Cat Kingdom. The cats interpreted her reaction as consent to a royal marriage proposal, which forced her to enter the Cat Kingdom and begin transforming into a cat.
Yuki is a white cat maiden who served as a silent guardian and the voice that guided Haru to the Cat Bureau. She had been saved from starvation by Haru in their childhood and later helped Haru escape the Cat Kingdom through a tunnel leading to a portal.
The Cat Returns earned a total of 1.8 billion yen at the box office. It was the highest-grossing domestic film at the Japanese box office in 2002 and won the Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival.