My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
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)
Hiroko Maruyama
Kanta's Mother
Masashi Hirose
Kanta's Father (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Kanta's Aunt (voice)
Machiko Washio
Teacher (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Catbus (voice)
Tomohiro Nishimura
Postman (voice)
Chie Koujiro
Michiko (voice)
Ned Lott
Producer
Yuko Mizutani
Ryoko (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
(voice)
TARAKO
(voice)
Mark Henley
Cinematographer
Mitsuko Ishida
(voice)
Daiki Nakamura
(voice)
Akiko Hiramatsu
(voice)
Ikue Otani
(voice)
Frank Welker
Totoro / Catbus (voice)
Takeshi Seyama
Editor
Kazuo Oga
Art Direction
Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Executive Producer
Eiko Tanaka
Line Producer
Hayao Miyazaki
Director / Writer / Original Story
Tooru Hara
Producer
Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer
Hitomi Tateno
Animation Manager
Masaki Yoshizaki
Background Designer
Makoto Tanaka
Animation
Hidetoshi Kaneko
Background Designer
Yasuko Tachiki
Animation Manager
Shinji Kimura
Background Designer
Nobuhiro Otsuka
Background Designer
Yoshiharu Sato
Animation Supervisor
Yoji Takeshige
Background Designer
Masaaki Endou
Animation
Yoshinori Kanada
Animation
Keiko Tamura
Background Designer
Tsuyoshi Matsumuro
Background Designer
Masako Shinohara
Animation
Hideko Tagawa
Animation
Toshio Nozaki
Background Designer
Makoto Shiraishi
Background Designer
Komasa
Animation
Makiko Futaki
Animation
Junko Ina
Background Designer
Toshio Kawaguchi
Animation
Kiyomi Oota
Background Designer
Tsukasa Tannai
Animation
Hajime Matsuoka
Background Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 16, 1988
Original Nameとなりのトトロ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
Budget$3,700,000
Box Office$41,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. It stars the voices of Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and focuses on two young sisters and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan.
In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an English-language dub for exclusive use on transpacific flights of Japan Airlines. Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film. This dub was released in 1993 to United States theaters, and the following year on VHS and LaserDisc in the US by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so Walt Disney Home Entertainment re-released the film on March 7, 2006 with a new dub cast. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the US to include both Japanese and English language tracks.
The film explores themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism and the joys of rural living. My Neighbor Totoro received worldwide critical acclaim, and has grossed over $41 million worldwide at the box office as of September 2019; the film also grossed significantly more from home video sales and merchandise.
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. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year. 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. The film and its titular character have become cultural icons, and made multiple cameo appearances in other films. Totoro also serves as the mascot for Studio Ghibli and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation.