My Neighbor Totoro

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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

G 07/13/1988 (US) Fantasy, Animation, Family 1h 26m

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He's your friendly neighbourhood forest spirit!

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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.

Hayao Miyazaki

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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)
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A review by 20thCentury

Written by 20thCentury on July 20, 2020

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I was delighted to see this subtle/multi-layered tale unfold, which seemed to play well to both a childhood audience, keen on likable characters/compelling imagination, and adults with a deeper appreciation for the symbolic backstory.

Like most of Miyazaki's films, there was an enormous focus on the power of the natural world. Whenever man perverts the natural world, the natural world seems to pushback. It appears as though the seldom seen Mother in the story is sick due to some mental/physical disconnect that she has likely had with the natural world.

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