My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro Japanese , Hepburn Tonari no Totoro? is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. 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.

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 their mother Yasuko is recovering from a longterm illness. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called susuwatari small, dark, dustlike house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. note When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind. It is implied that they are going to find another empty house their natural habitat.One day, Mei sees two white, rabbitlike ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house. She discovers two small magical creatures 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 Totoros tree. Her father comforts her by telling her that this is the keeper of the forest, and that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to. ........

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