Les Aventures de Chatran

I hate when people review a film without making any researches about it. In the 80s, there was basically no laws to protect animals. A lot of newspapers at the time reported the atrocities that the animals had to endure during this shooting, well,the ones who could survive. About 30 kittens were killed during the shooting and the most terrible thing is that most of them were killed deliberately. The famous scene when Chartran (Milo or Otis, in french the kitten name is Chartran) falls from a high cliff needed many kittens, one for each take...there's also all those terrible stuff about the little bear and the dog. The Columbia refused at that time to put in the credits that no animals were harmed during the shooting. A lot of viewers were in shock after the screening cause obviously, a film like that without any FX could had not been shot without cruelty. Chartran was not a kitten but tens of them... Boycott that piece of s...! It's not a cute film for all ages, it's a snuff for kids, a HUGE mass grave that should be remembered only for all the atrocities it has done to those unwilling animals.

"Not harmed" not writing in the end, bear crushed a dog with his leg, bids attacking a cat, curiously cut, no making-of for 4 years filming, not very much informations for a film very, very popular... That's much questions, it is not only. I think, unfortunately that we're blind, as somebody told in comment... We can do much of things with animals, but some evidence are to big somehimes...to real. I'm very sad to know the truth about this film, because I loved watch it, and hear the music of it... But with this conscience I can watch it anymore... the memory can be heavy. Very popular, the film is... The less we know, the more they gain. Make that it is not the case... if you think it's right.

A cute movie for children about a kitten and a puppy who experience various adventures when the kitten gets lost.

What WAS disturbing watching this movie was the obvious fear and anxiety the young animals were put through in order to film the scenes in the movies. Absolutely inhumane.

Chatran has the only merit to show how far you can go to earn a fistful of miserable bucks. Sacrificing a dozen cats who never asked for anything does not represent my conception of bringing fantasy and entertainment to an audience. "Sure, let's throw the cat from the roof and put it on film, I'm sure the kids will love it!" I'm not saying that no animal was ever harmed on any other shooting that this one, but there's a difference between a horse with a broken leg and five cats thrown from a cliff until one survives and the sequence is wrapped up. (I'm not making this up.) Watching Chatran is like witnessing scientific experiments on animals with the medics laughing their heads off in the background. Except here, the only goal is to make money. The ultimate hypocrisy is that it's supposed to be a charming and moving story with big moral issues about life... To think that the director of this thing is one of the most talented and popular writers in Japan really has me wondering. A sickening experience of cinematographic lobotomy. Blindness is dangerous. Stay aware.

I enjoyed this film, it was really cute... but found that it was disturbing in the ways they filmed the animals. The animals were obviously frightened in some scenes and definitely did not belong in some of the situations; which include the cat being attacked by seagulls, being chased by a bear, and flying off of a sheer cliff into the ocean...someone had to have thrown him off the edge to make that convenient shot! This made me wonder if the ASPCA was involved in the making of the film, but then I realized that it was filmed in Japan. I loved this film as a child, but watching it yesterday on the Disney channel, I am not as sure.