Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2000 film)

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is a 2000 American computer-animated martial artscomedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is directed by John Lasseter.

Plot
In a land inspired by feudal Japan and entirely inhabited by cats, Ika Chu, a conniving high ranking official of the land's Shogun, desires to expand his giant palace. However, it resides right next to the impoverished village of Kakamucho. Hoping to get rid of it, Ika Chu plans to force Kakamucho's residents to abandon their town by sending a gang of thugs led by his second-in-hand Ohga to trash the town. The townspeople demand that the Shogun appoint a new samurai to protect them after the previous one flees. Ika Chu, hoping to offend the townspeople, decides to appoint Hank, a dog prisoner about to be executed, as Kakamucho's samurai. After an initial hostile reception, Hank relies on the assistance of Jimbo, a catnip-addled samurai who reluctantly agrees to train him, in order to overcome the townspeople's hostility. While training with Jimbo, Hank manages to subdue Sumo, an immensely strong, dim-witted, yet philosophical henchman that Ika Chu sent to drive out the townspeople quicker. The townspeople see Hank as a hero, but his newfound popularity ends up going to Hank's head, and he neglects his training, which causes a fallout between him and Jimbo. Ika Chu takes Hank to a private nightclub, in order to distract him as his thugs trash Kakamucho. Hank returns to a devastated town and, after a heated argument with Jimbo, he decides to go home, but an origami figure of himself reminds him of his samurai oath. Jimbo, meanwhile, attempts to storm Ika Chu's palace in hopes to free Sumo, who was captured by Ika Chu's goons. Hank returns in order to help him out. Upon hearing about Sumo's escape, Ika Chu recruits an army of thugs to get rid of Kakamucho for good. Hank returns to Kakamucho, and explains his plan to defeat Ika Chu's army. The townspeople then build a perfect paper copy of the town and themselves as a diversion. When the raiders attack the fake town and its population of dummies, which have been booby-trapped with dynamite, Hank ignites the bombs and the townspeople attack the thugs. The Shogun arrives, who questions the fighting. Ohga accidentally exposes Ika Chu's plan to him, causing Ika Chu to flee. Hank chases Ika Chu to his palace, where he fights him on his giant jade bowl, which rolls out and threatens to destroy the town. Hank warns the Kakamucho townspeople of the incoming rolling bowl, and leads them in the build of a wall with different materials to crash the bowl. With Kakamucho saved, the impressed Shogun decides to appoint Jimbo as the new samurai, but he gives the position to Hank. Hank however, feels that he is not entirely ready, so he ends up giving the position to Emiko, a kitten who also desires to be a samurai. Hank and Jimbo continue to train in their own time, with their relationship mended. 6 months later, while Hank is walking through Kakamucho, Jimbo warned him that a group of new ninjas are coming to Kamamucho and Hank prepares to fight.

Cast

 * Zach Braff as Hank
 * John Ratzenberger as Jimbo
 * Joe Ranft as Ika Chu
 * Wayne Knight as Toshi
 * Ray Romano as Ohga
 * Tom Hanks as Ichiro
 * Frank Welker as Chuck
 * Andrew Stanton as Sumo
 * Bonnie Hunt as Emiko
 * Selena Gomez as Yuki

Happy Meal Toys
You can get a Hank, Jimbo, Ika Chu, Emiko, Sumo and Toshi as action figures in your purchase of a Happy Meal.

Theme park attractions
In 2018, it opened a theme land based on the movie on Disney California Adventure. One of the first rides of the land was an interactive 3-D dark ride named Paws of Fury: Samurai Academy, it is similar to Toy Story Mania. It is also located at the China pavilion on Epcot.

Premiere

 * October 31th 2000 (El Capitán Theater)

In Theaters

 * November 13, 2000 (United States)
 * November 21, 2000 (China)
 * December 4, 2000 (Worldwide)
 * November 9, 2020 (20th anniversary Re-release)

Home Media

 * March 7th, 2001 (VHS and DVD) (Original Release) (North America and China)
 * April 2, 2001 (VHS and DVD) (Original Release) (Worldwide)
 * June 15, 2010 (Blu-Ray) (North America and China)
 * June 21, 2010 (Blu-Ray) (Worldwide)

Sequel
In 2018, the sequel called Paws of Fury 2: A New Legacy was released, it will about many years after the first film, Hank has now been married with Emiko and is the samurai trainer of the school, but Ika Chu's son, Takeshi wants to get revenge of Hank by building an ultimate weapon to take over Kakamucho.

TV Series
In 2020, to conmemorate the 20th anniversary of the film, Disney released on Disney+ a TV show based on the first film called Paws of Fury: Adventures in Kakamucho. It premiered on July 18, 2020. The same day the TV show came out, it was also released Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank As Told By Emoji on Disney+.