My Neighbor Totoro

“He's your friendly neighbourhood forest spirit!”

8.1(8,895)19881h 26m

FantasyAnimationFamily

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.

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Budget

$3.7M

Revenue

$41.0M

Totoro Takes The Cat Bus

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Cast

Noriko Hidaka

Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)

Chika Sakamoto

Mei Kusakabe (voice)

Hitoshi Takagi

Totoro (voice)

Shigesato Itoi

Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)

Sumi Shimamoto

Yasuko Kusakabe (voice)

Tanie Kitabayashi

Granny (voice)

Toshiyuki Amagasa

Kanta Ogaki (voice)

Yuko Maruyama

Kanta's Mother (voice)

Masashi Hirose

Kanta's Father (voice)

Reiko Suzuki

Kanta's Aunt (voice)

Machiko Washio

Teacher (voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Catbus (voice)

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Reviews

5 reviews

Geronimo1967

1y ago

7.0

Though maybe the story here is a bit on the thin side, this is still glorious mix of family and fantasy from the hand-drawn animation of the gifted Hayao Miyazaki. It's all about two sisters - "Mei" and "Satsuki" who travel with their father to a new, rather rustic, home. It's all a grand adventure for the girls though and they are barely through the door before realising that the house has some e...

ARGMAN

2y ago

6.0

cute & sweet. that's it

r96sk

2y ago

8.0

Aggressively cute. <em>'My Neighbor Totoro'</em> holds an extremely hearty story, one told via impeccably beautiful animation. Noriko Hidaka and Chika Sakamoto standout as Satsuki and Mei, the relationship between those two characters is so sweet. They do get a bit shouty in parts which ever so slightly irritates, but that's definitely one to file under 'nit-picking'. A simple movie, one whi...