My Neighbor Totoro

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    My Neighbor Totoro
    1988

    Synopsis

    Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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    Cast

    • Noriko HidakaSatsuki Kusakabe (voice)
    • Chika SakamotoMei Kusakabe (voice)
    • Hitoshi TakagiTotoro (voice)
    • Shigesato ItoiTatsuo Kusakabe (voice)
    • Sumi ShimamotoYasuko Kusakabe (voice)
    • Tanie KitabayashiGranny (voice)
    • Toshiyuki AmagasaKanta Ogaki (voice)
    • Yuko MaruyamaKanta's Mother (voice)
    • Masashi HiroseKanta's Father (voice)
    • Reiko SuzukiKanta's Aunt (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The A.V. Club

      Miyazaki so effectively captures the feeling of a child’s life, inside as well as out, that little ones are often mesmerized by the movie, and adults are returned to a time when they could enjoy mystery for its own sake.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. 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.
    • 100

      Empire

      An otherworldly tale of childhood and a definitive work of imagination.
    • 100

      The Guardian

      Hayao Miyazaki's family fantasy is full of benign spirituality, prelapsarian innocence, but little icky sentiment.
    • 100

      Time Out

      An animated achievement almost without parallel.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      It’s a film that proves time and again that life itself is the grandest, most galvanizing of all dramas.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      Sheer enchantment, this 1989 animated feature is a key early work by Hayao Miyazaki. It exemplifies Ghibli's style of fanciful realism, paying close attention to minute details as well-drawn figures move across a fluid backdrop. It also deals straightforwardly with substantial emotions like fear of death, though at times it veers toward the heart-tugging cuteness of the Pokemon series.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      An ideal animated film for young children, it has also found favor among adults who appreciate its unusually gentle, painterly style of animation, a trademark of the film's director, Japan's most renowned animator, Hayao Miyazaki.

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