Tatsuo comforts her by telling her Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to. Despite many attempts, Mei cannot show her family Totoro's tree. Mei falls asleep atop Totoro but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground. Mei thinks Totoro is the troll from her illustrated book Three Billy Goats Gruff, with her mispronouncing troll.
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She befriends a larger spirit, which identifies itself using a series of roars she interprets as "Totoro". Mei later discovers two small spirits who lead her into the hollow of a large camphor tree.
When the girls become comfortable in their new house, the susuwatari leave to find another empty house. The house is inhabited by small, dark, dust-like house spirits called susuwatari, which can be seen when moving from bright places to dark ones.
In 1950s Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his daughters Satsuki and Mei (approximately ten and four years old, respectively) move into an old house close to the hospital where the girls' mother Yasuko is recovering from a long-term illness. Totoro also serves as the mascot for Studio Ghibli and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation. The film and its titular character have become cultural icons, and made multiple cameo appearances in a number of Studio Ghibli films and video games. The film is considered as one of the top animation films, ranking 41st in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010 and the number-one animated film on the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of all-time greatest films. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year. My Neighbor Totoro received numerous awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, the Mainichi Film Award, and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988. My Neighbor Totoro has grossed over $41 million worldwide at the box office as of September 2019, and an estimated $277 million from home video sales and $1.142 billion from licensed merchandise sales, totaling approximately $1.46 billion. The film explores themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism and the joys of rural living it received worldwide critical acclaim and has amassed a global cult following. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the US to include both Japanese and English language tracks. This version was also released in Australia by Madman Entertainment on Ma and in the UK by Optimum Releasing on March 27, 2006.
The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so Walt Disney Home Entertainment re-released the film on Mawith a new dub cast. This dub was released in 1993 to United States theaters, and the following year on LaserDisc in the US by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film, which was co-produced by Jerry Beck. In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an English-language dub for exclusive use on transpacific flights of Japan Airlines. The film stars voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi, and tells the story of a professor's young daughters Satsuki and Mei, and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. My Neighbor Totoro ( Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film that was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten.
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