My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: ??????? Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. The film—which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi—tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year.
My Neighbor Totoro | |
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Japanese theatrical release poster | |
Japanese | ??????? |
Hepburn | Tonari no Totoro |
Directed by | Hayao Miyazaki |
Produced by | Toru Hara |
Written by | Hayao Miyazaki |
Starring | Chika Sakamoto Noriko Hidaka Hitoshi Takagi |
Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
Cinematography | Hisao Shirai |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama |
Production company | Studio Ghibli |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $6.1 million |
In 1989, 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. This dub was released to United States theaters in 1993, on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so it was re-released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on 7 March 2006 with a new dub cast. This version was also released in Australia by Madman on 15 March 2006 and in the UK by Optimum Releasing on 27 March 2006. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.
My Neighbor Totoro was critically acclaimed and has amassed a worldwide cult following in the years after its release. The film and its titular character, Totoro, have become cultural icons. While the film only grossed $6.1 million at the box office, it went to gross approximately $266 million from home video sales and at least $1.142 billion from licensed merchandise sales, adding up to at least $1.414 billion in total revenue, as of 2018.
My Neighbor Totoro ranked 41st in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010, and Totoro was ranked 18th on Empire's 50 Best Animated Film Characters list. A list of the greatest animated films compiled by Terry Gilliam in Time Out ranked the film number 1. A similar list compiled by the editors of Time Out ranked the film number 3. My Neighbor Totoro was also voted the highest-ranking animated film on the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of all-time greatest films. The character made multiple cameo appearances in a number of Studio Ghibli films and video games and also serves as the mascot for the studio and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation. Totoro was ranked 24th on IGN's top 25 anime characters.
Screenplay
In 1958 Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house to be closer to the hospital where the girls' mother, Yasuko, is recovering from a long-term illness. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny creatures called susuwatari—small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with Tatsuo, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind and find another empty house.
One day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house. She discovers two small spirits who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as "Totoro". She falls asleep atop the large totoro, but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground in a dense briar clearing. Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree. Tatsuo comforts her by telling her that this is the "keeper of the forest," and that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to.
One rainy night, the girls are waiting for Tatsuo's bus and grow worried when he doesn't arrive on the bus they expect him on. As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. He has only a leaf on his head for protection against the rain, so Satsuki offers him the umbrella she had taken along for her father. Totoro is delighted at both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops. In return, he gives her a bundle of nuts and seeds. A giant, bus-shaped cat halts at the stop, and Totoro boards it, taking the umbrella. Shortly after, Tatsuo's bus arrives.
The girls plant the seeds. A few days later, they awaken at midnight to find Totoro and his two miniature colleagues engaged in a ceremonial dance around the planted nuts and seeds. The girls join in, whereupon the seeds sprout, and then grow and combine into an enormous tree. Totoro takes his colleagues and the girls for a ride on a magical flying top. In the morning, the tree is gone, but the seeds have indeed sprouted; it is left unclear whether or not the girls were dreaming.
The girls find out that a planned visit by Yasuko has to be postponed because of a setback in her treatment. Satsuki, disappointed and worried, tells Mei the bad news, which Mei does not take well. This leads to an argument between the two, ending in Satsuki yelling at Mei and stomping off. Mei decides to walk to the hospital to bring some fresh corn to Yasuko.
Mei's disappearance prompts Satsuki and the neighbors to search for her. Eventually, Satsuki returns in desperation to the camphor tree and pleads for Totoro's help. Delighted to be of assistance, he summons the Catbus, which carries her to where the lost Mei sits. Having rescued her, the Catbus then whisks her and Satsuki over the countryside to see Yasuko in the hospital. The girls perch in a tree outside of the hospital, overhearing a conversation between their parents and discovering that she has been kept in hospital by a minor cold, but is otherwise doing well. They secretly leave the ear of corn on the windowsill, where it is discovered by the parents, and return home on the Catbus.
Eventually, Mei and Satsuki's mother returns home, and the sisters play with other children, while Totoro and his friends watch them from afar.
Character name | Japanese voice actor | English voice actor (Tokuma/Streamline/Fox/50th Street Films, 1989/1993) |
English voice actor (Disney, 2005) |
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Satsuki Kusakabe (?? ???) (daughter) | Noriko Hidaka | Lisa Michelson | Dakota Fanning |
Mei Kusakabe (?? ??) (daughter) | Chika Sakamoto | Cheryl Chase | Elle Fanning |
Tatsuo Kusakabe (?? ???) (father) | Shigesato Itoi | Greg Snegoff | Tim Daly |
Yasuko Kusakabe (?? ??) (mother) | Sumi Shimamoto | Alexandra Kenworthy | Lea Salonga |
Totoro (???) | Hitoshi Takagi | Unknown | Frank Welker |
Kanta ?gaki (?? ??) (a local boy) | Toshiyuki Amagasa | Kenneth Hartman | Paul Butcher |
Nanny / Granny (Kanta's grandmother) | Tanie Kitabayashi | Natalie Core | Pat Carroll |
Catbus (???? Nekobasu) | Naoki Tatsuta | Carl Macek (uncredited) | Frank Welker |
Michiko | Chie Kojiro | Brianne Siddall (uncredited) | Unknown |
Mrs. Ogaki (Kanta's mother) | Hiroko Maruyama | Melanie MacQueen | Kath Soucie |
Mr. Ogaki (Kanta's father) | Masashi Hirose | Steve Kramer | Unknown |
Old Farmer | Unknown | Peter Renaday | |
Miss Hara (Satsuki's teacher) | Machiko Washio | Edie Mirman (uncredited) | Tress MacNeille (uncredited) |
Kanta's Aunt | Reiko Suzuki | Russi Taylor | |
Otoko | Daiki Nakamura | Kerrigan Mahan (uncredited) | Unknown |
Ryouko | Yuko Mizutani | Lara Cody | Bridget Hoffman |
Bus Attendant | Unknown | Kath Soucie | |
Mailman | Tomomichi Nishimura | Doug Stone (uncredited) | Unknown |
Art director Kazuo Oga was drawn to the film when Hayao Miyazaki showed him an original image of Totoro standing in a satoyama. The director challenged Oga to raise his standards, and Oga's experience with My Neighbor Totoro jump-started the artist's career. Oga and Miyazaki debated the palette of the film, Oga seeking to paint black soil from Akita Prefecture and Miyazaki preferring the color of red soil from the Kant? region.:82 The ultimate product was described by Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki: "It was nature painted with translucent colors."
Oga's conscientious approach to My Neighbor Totoro was a style that the International Herald Tribune recognized as " the traditional Japanese animist sense of a natural world that is fully, spiritually alive". The newspaper described the final product:
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