The dual billing was considered "one of the most moving and remarkable double bills ever offered to a cinema audience". That switched with Kiki's Delivery Service. So it wasn't as if we had a warm, receptive audience for animated films in Japan from the start. One direction my producer, Toshio Suzuki, and I have discussed and taken is that every time the audience develops an expectation about Ghibli films, we work to betray that expectation with our next project.
The film has received international releases since Thirty years after its original release in Japan, My Neighbor Totoro received a Chinese theatrical release in December The delay was due to long-standing political tensions between China and Japan, but many Chinese nevertheless became familiar with Miyazaki's films due to rampant video piracy.
In , Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines. Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. The rights to this dub expired in , so it was re-released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on March 7, , with a new dub cast. The Totoro Bus Stop in Oita. Visitors once used to leave Totoro, Catbus and wooden messages there, until it was replaced by cutouts of the film's characters.
Due to the massive success of My Neighbor Totoro , locations set or inspired by the film became popular tourist spots. It was re-released on November 21, , and August 25, It was re-released on Novovember 21, and August 25, It centers around Mei and her misadventure with the Kittenbus.
Chika Sakamoto reprises her role as Mei and Joe Hisaishi composes a brand new score for the animated short. See full Credits. Ghibli Wiki. Ghibli Wiki Explore. Studio Ghibli works. Ocean Waves. Whisper of the Heart. The Cat Returns. Studio Ghibli Studio Ponoc. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? My Neighbor Totoro.
View source. History Talk 0. It'll fall down. Isn't it big? Father, a huge tree! The doctor was saying she'll be able to leave the hospital soon. Weren't you going to sleep by yourself? I have two more hours, and Granny's busy too. Granny: She was a good girl all day, right? Granny, I'll go and speak with the teacher. I want to meet him too. Isn't this a beautiful tree? It's been here since long, long ago.
Back then, man and trees were friends. Father saw this tree and fell in love with that house. I'm sure Mother will like it too. Well, let's offer our greetings and get back home. We have to eat our lunch.. It's just a little cold and the hospital had to go and send a telegram. The kids are sure to be worried. They shouldn't have done it. We've all come this far. Our good times are just put off for a little while, that's all. Satsuki's such a sensitive child, I feel sorry for her. Who is it?
Birth story spelled out in reproduced video. Ookina Koe de", VGMdb. Universal Conquest Wiki. Shigesato Itoi. Greg Snegoff. Tim Daly. Alexandra Kenworthy. Lea Salonga. Frank Welker. Carl Macek uncredited. Tanie Kitabayashi. Natalie Core. Pat Carroll. Toshiyuki Amagasa. Kenneth Hartman. Paul Butcher. Chie Kojiro. Brianne Siddall uncredited. Melanie MacQueen. Kath Soucie. Steve Kramer. David Midthunder. Bridget Hoffman. Machiko Washio. Edie Mirman uncredited. Tress MacNeille uncredited.
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He wears a simple leaf to protect him from the rain: Satsuki gives him their father's umbrella. Totoro is intrigued by the sound of rain dripping from the trees landing on the umbrella, and even playfully jumps on the ground to cause more to fall. Eventually, the Catbus arrives to take him on his way. Before he leaves, he gives Mei a gift of acorns wrapped in bamboo leaf for the girls to plant. Sometime later, he leads the other Totoros in a song and dance to make the acorns the girls planted grow.
They are joined by Mei and Satsuki. He then invites them on a ride on his magical flying top, which they use to fly to the top of the trees and play his acorn flute. When Mei gets lost trying to get to the hospital, Satsuki seeks out Totoro and asks for his help in rescuing her. Totoro gladly obliges, summoning the Catbus and sending Satuski off with it to find Mei.
He is last seen playing the flute while observing Mei and Satsuki's return home. Over the end credits he and the other Totoros harvest and feast on acorns, and during the winter discover a snow-Totoro presumably made by Mei and Satsuki. Mei meets Totoro again while he is joining several of his fellow forest spirits in a gathering for the Cat Liner.
Although silent as ever, he is clearly excited to see Mei again, and he helps her introduce herself to the Cat Liner. Totoro appears as a large furry creature with grey fur and beige belly with grey arrows on his chest. He has pointy ears, long whiskers along with large paws with long claws. When he floats his mouth expands greatly.
No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap. It's a perennial best seller on video. On the Internet Movie Database, it's voted the fifth best family film of all time, right behind ''Toy Story 2'' and ahead of ''Shrek.
Whenever I watch it, I smile, and smile, and smile. This is one of the lovingly hand-crafted works of Hayao Miyazaki , often called the greatest of the Japanese animators, although his colleague at the Ghibli Studios, Isao Takahata, may be his equal.
Remarkable that ''Totoro'' and Takahata's ''Grave of the Fireflies,'' now both in my Great Movies selection, were released on the same double bill in Miyazaki has not until very recently used computers to help animate his films; they are drawn a frame at a time, the classic way, with the master himself contributing tens of thousands of the frames.
Animation is big business in Japan, commanding up to a quarter of the box office some years. Miyazaki is the ''Japanese Disney,'' it's said, although that is a little unfair, since Walt Disney was more producer and visionary than animator, and Miyazaki rolls up his sleeves and draws his films himself.
His ''Princess Mononoke'' outgrossed ''Titanic'' in Japan, and his newest film, ''Spirited Away'' , outgrossed ''Mononoke'' when it was released in July Of his nine other major films, those best known in the U.
Miyazaki's films are above all visually enchanting, using a watercolor look for the backgrounds and working within the distinctive Japanese anime tradition of characters with big round eyes and mouths that can be as small as a dot or as big as a cavern.
They also have an unforced realism in the way they notice details; early in ''Totoro,'' for example, the children look at a little waterfall near their home, and there on the bottom, unremarked, is a bottle someone threw into the stream. The movie tells the story of two young sisters, Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe. As the story opens, their father is driving them to their new house, near a vast forest.
Their mother, who is sick, has been moved to a hospital in this district. Now think about that. The film is about two girls, not two boys or a boy and a girl, as all American animated films would be. It has a strong and loving father, in contrast to the recent Hollywood fondness for bad or absent fathers.
Their mother is ill; does illness exist in American animation? When they ask a neighbor boy how to find their new house, we see, but they don't, that he makes a face.
Later he tells them it is haunted. But not haunted in the American sense, with ghosts or fearsome creatures. When Mei and Satsuki let light into the gloom, they get just a glimpse of little black fuzzy dots scurrying to safety.
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