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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
"Tonari no Totoro" (original title)

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

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Credited cast:
Toshiyuki Amagasa ...
Kanta (voice)
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Kanta (voice)
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Nanny (voice)
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Shigeru Chiba ...
Kusakari-Otoko (voice)
Lara Cody ...
Farm Girl (Troma version) (voice)
Natalie Core ...
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Professor Kusakabe (voice) (as Timothy Daly)
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Kenneth Hartman ...
Kanta (Troma version) (voice)
Noriko Hidaka ...
Satsuki (voice)
Akiko Hiramatsu ...
(voice)
Masashi Hirose ...
Kanta no otôsan (voice)
Shigesato Itoi ...
Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)
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Storyline

Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures. Written by Christopher E. Meadows <cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu>

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The names of the two girls, Satsuki and Mei are a play on the word May. "Satsuki" is an old Japanese word for May, and "Mei" is the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "May". See more »

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The color of the umbrella handle that Kanta offers Satsuki changes. See more »

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SatsukiMei Kusakabe: Come out, come out, whereever you are!
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"Tonari no Totoro"
("My Neighbor Totoro")
Lyrics by Hayao Miyazaki
Composed by Joe Hisaishi
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The cutest movie I ever saw !
18 August 2004 | by (Paris, France) – See all my reviews

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 !


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