My Neighbor Totoro

Original title: Tonari no Totoro

1988
G
1h 26m

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Anime Hand-Drawn Animation Iyashikei Animation Comedy Family Fantasy

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

393K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,095

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #181

Awards
- 5 wins & 2 nominations

Totoro
(voice)

Noriko Hidaka

Satsuki
(voice)

Chika Sakamoto

Mei
(voice)

Shigesato Itoi

Tatsuo Kusakabe
(voice)

Sumi Shimamoto

Yasuko Kusakabe
(voice)

Tanie Kitabayashi

Granny
(voice)

Hiroko Maruyama

Kanta's Mother
(voice)

Machiko Washio

School teacher
(voice)

Reiko Suzuki

Originator grandma
(voice)

Masashi Hirose

Kanta's Father
(voice)

Toshiyuki Amagasa

Kanta
(voice)

Shigeru Chiba

Kusakari-Otoko
(voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Cat Bus
(voice)
…

Tarako

Additional Voices
(voice)

Tomohiro Nishimura

Postal Messanger
(voice)

Mitsuko Ishida

Additional Voices
(voice)

Chie Kôjiro

Additional Voices
(voice)
(as Chie Koujiro)

Daiki Nakamura

Man on Tractor
(voice)

Storyline

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Trivia
The film is partially autobiographical. When Hayao Miyazaki and his brothers were children, his mother suffered from spinal tuberculosis for nine years and spent much of her time hospitalized. It is implied, yet never revealed in the film, that Satsuki and Mei's mother also suffers from tuberculosis, as she was hospitalized in a sanatorium (a specialized hospital for tuberculosis patients and usually located in the countryside), which caused the whole family to move to the countryside. He once said the film would have been too painful for him to make if the two protagonists were boys instead of girls.

Goofs
When Mei is walking around with corn, a goat walks up and bears its large teeth. The goat shows a full set of upper and lower teeth. This is a mistake as goats do not have upper teeth.

Quotes
Tatsuo Kusakabe: Trees and people used to be good friends. I saw that tree and decided to buy the house. Hope Mom likes it too. Okay, let's pay our respects then get home for lunch.

Crazy credits
Drawings in the closing credits show the mother returning home in a taxi and having a bath with Satsuki and Mei. There is also the appearance of a baby dressed in blue, perhaps a younger sibling (brother?) for the girls.

Alternate versions
The humorous line spoken at the start of the film, "Come out! Come out! Or we'll pull your eyeballs out!" had the latter phrase removed in the Streamline Pictures English dub. It was deemed to be "Inpolitically correct" by the company.

Connections
Edited into Miyazaki Dreams of Flying (2017)

Soundtracks
Tonari no Totoro
("My Neighbor Totoro")
Lyrics by Hayao Miyazaki
Composed by Joe Hisaishi

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10/10

The cutest movie I ever saw !

My favorite Miyazaki's movie is "Princess Mononoke" on a graphical scale. But on a "charming scale", this one is really the best.

Even the Disney movies are not so charming than this movie. Poetic, charming, cute, I can't find the words to describe the good this movie made to me. Miyazaki brings us into the wonderlands of the children, better than "Alice in wonderland" or "Peter pan".

In fact, Miyazaki makes us loving children. In the movie, the children run, shout all time, laugh, cry, and so on. In the real world, I hate this. In normal movies I hate this too. But, here, every actions of the two little girls touch us deep in our heart. We learn to love children's world.

Every one of us will have a smile on this face, from the beginning to the end of this movie.

My favorite scene is the first encounter between Mei and Totoro. It's fun, poetic, and charming. Miyazaki succeeds to make a movie enjoyable for the very little kids (4 y.o.) and for the adult audience. It's very rare to succeed doing that !

Really, a masterpiece !

10/10 !