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Quick facts for kids My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Toru Hara
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Starring	Chika Sakamoto Noriko Hidaka Hitoshi Takagi Tanie Kiribayashi Shigesato Itoi Sumi Shimamoto
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Hisao Shirai
Editing by	Takeshi Seyama
Studio	Troma Films - dub (USA) Walt Disney Pictures - Disney dub (USA)
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) 20th Century Fox - dub (USA) Buena Vista Pictures - Disney dub (USA)
Release date(s)	April 16, Fox Dub Disney Dub March 7,
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	$, ,

My Neighbor Totoro(となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro), or My Neighbour Totoro on UKDVD box titles, is a animatedmoviewritten and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

It won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in This movie was originally released in the United States in VHS format with the title, My Friend Totoro.

Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, produced a dub of the movie co-produced by Jerry Beck. It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Video. Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in The movie was re-released by Disney on March 7, It features a new dub cast.

This DVD release is the first version of the movie in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.

Story

Satsuki, Mei and their father live in the field, where Mei discovers a giant creature living in the forest near the house.

Totoro biography summary Ghibli-related labels. As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. Disney 's English-language dub premiered on October 23 , ; it then appeared at the Hollywood Film Festival. Sign In Register.

When Mei leaves in her attempt to save her hospitalized mother, she and Satsuki take a ride on the cat-bus. The movie ends with the girls delivering an ear of corn to their mother.

Characters

A girl around ten years old. Satsuki is Mei's older sister. Satsuki is the traditional name of the fifth month of the Japanese calendar, the equivalent of the English May.

Satsuki's sister who is around four years old.

Her name deliberately echoes her sister's, May being the fifth month, reflecting the fact that the story originally featured one girl, who was then divided into an older and younger sister. The widely-distributed promotional image for the movie of a girl standing next to Totoro at a bus stop reflects the earlier conception with a single child.

The girls' father, who works in the archaeology and anthropology departments of a Tokyo university.

The girls' mother, recovering from an unnamed illness (confirmed by Miyazaki as being tuberculosis) at Shichikokuyama Hospital, which is noted for its tuberculosis treatment program.

When Miyazaki was a young boy, his mother had tuberculosis.

A grey and white, friendly forest spirit, whose appearance is a combination of an owl, a cat, and a tanuki and is at least three meters tall. Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of torōru, the Japanese pronunciation of troll as a loanword.

Totoro biography pdf The studio assigned jobs to Oga that would play to his strengths, and Oga's style became a trademark style of Studio Ghibli. According to Miyazaki, "If she was a little girl who plays around in the yard, she wouldn't be meeting her father at a bus stop, so we had to come up with two girls instead. Originally released in Japan in , the short is regularly shown at the Ghibli Museum, but has not been released to home video. My Neighbor Totoro received critical acclaim and has amassed a worldwide cult following in the years after its release.

There are two similar, smaller creatures in the movie, also referred to as totoro; the big grey Totoro is named "Ō-Totoro", or "Miminzuku", the middle is "Chū-Totoro", or "Zuku", and the smallest is "Chibi-Totoro", or "Mini". These names do not appear in the movie itself, but are used in ancillary materials.

A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki.

This character resembles Miyazaki in his fondness for cartoons and airplanes.

Kanta's grandmother, who sometimes takes care of the girls.

A cat with hollow insides, serving as a bus for Totoros. It is based on the Japanese superstition that if a cat grows old enough, it gains magical shape-changing powers, and is called a bake neko.

Bake neko are mentioned in several Ghibli movies.

Release history

My Neighbor Totoro was released by Studio Ghibli as a double feature with Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies in August There are two theories for this: one was that Totoro would not be successful.

Totoro biography Related productions. Isn't it big? A four-volume series of ani-manga books, which use color images and lines directly from the film, were published in Japan in May by Tokuma. The big Totoro combines both names into Miminzuku, and is years old.

Another theory is that Grave of the Fireflies was believed to be too depressing for audiences by itself, and thus needed a lighter animation to accompany it. The late Yoshifumi Kondo provided character designs for both movies.

In , Fox released the first English-language version of My Neighbor Totoro, produced by John Daly and Derek Gibson (the producers of The Terminator) with co-producer Jerry Beck.

Fox and Troma's rights to the movie expired in Disney's English language version premiered on October 23, ; it then appeared at the Hollywood Film Festival. The Turner Classic Movies cable television network held the television premiere of Disney's new English dub on January 19, , as part of the network's salute to Hayao Miyazaki.

(TCM aired the dub as well as the original Japanese with English subtitles.) The Disney version was released on DVD on March 7,

As is the case with Disney's other English dubs of Miyazaki movies, the Disney version of Totoro features a star-heavy cast, including Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei, Timothy Daly as Mr.

Kusakabe, Pat Carroll as Granny, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe, and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus. The songs for the new dub retained the same translation as the previous dub, but were sung by Sonya Isaacs.

Other appearances

• Miyazaki made a minute "sequel" to the movie, "Mei and the Kittenbus", that has not yet been distributed or broadcast.

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It is shown exclusively in the Ghibli Museum and initially was only shown for a short time [1]. It reappears at intervals there, most recently from January

• Totoro also made a brief cameo appearance during a scene in Pompoko, another Studio Ghibli movie.
• In the first Digimon Movie, "Digimon Adventure (The Movie)", there is a Totoro object that can be seen during the bubbles scene.

  This scene was shortened in the English version and the Totoro cannot be seen.

• Episode XXXIII of Samurai Jack has Jack encountering an annoying creature whose design is clearly influenced by the big Totoro. The episode also includes an artifact called the Crystal of Cagliostro, an apparent allusion to Miyazaki's earlier movie The Castle of Cagliostro.
• The character of Totoro made a cameo appearance in one episode of the Gainax TV series Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo (His and Her Circumstances), which was likely director Hideaki Anno's way of paying tribute to Miyazaki.

  (Anno worked as a key animator on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in and considers Miyazaki a mentor.) In fact, Gainax reportedly invited the animator who did the original key animation for Totoro to work on that scene, although they never revealed the animator's name.

  Totoro biography for kids Birth story spelled out in reproduced video. Most of the team members then went back home to celebrate the New Year. The film and its titular character, Totoro , have become cultural icons. Machiko Washio.

  In addition, one KareKano character, Tsubasa Shibahime, is a huge Totoro fan.

• Totoro has made four cameo appearances on Comedy Central's Drawn Together. He is a student in "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education", a Japanese businessman in "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special", a wedding guest in "Freaks & Greeks", and Ling-Ling's piano player in "American Idol Parody Clip Show".
• Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender was strongly inspired by the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro.
• In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Brief Lives, Delirium blows bubbles into a number of impossible shapes, one of which is Totoro holding an umbrella.

  In Gaiman's The Books of Magic, several Totoro dolls are for sale in a market in the realm of Faerie.

• Sometimes in Code Lyoko as seen in Yumi's room, there is a Totoro doll.
• In Kiki's Delivery Service Mei and Chu-Totoro are painted on the bedroom windows. She also has a stuffed toy that resembles Totoro on her bed. Also if you look hard while Kiki is zooming through the crowds near the beginning of the movie you can see a girl who looks just like Mei.
• In Whisper of the Heart, Chu-Totoro and Chibi-Totoro can be seen on a dollmaker's bench, and one of the books in Sazuki's school library is titled Totoro.
• A Totoro-doll appears on the cover of The Vandals album Internet Dating Superstuds.
• The Cartoon Network short, "Buy One Get One Free" (aired as part of the What a Cartoon show), is a short about a cat who is tempted into throwing a party in his owner's apartment.

  In one shot, a cat resembling Totoro can be seen at the party.

• Totoro makes numerous appearances in the episode of South Park entitled "Imaginationland".
• A parody, "Tonari no Pedoro" is seen in the Gintama OVA for Jump Festa In this skit, Pedoro is a large, overweight man, wearing only briefs and a policeman hat.

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A girl is asking him for help, while all he does is ramble about how the Telephone company shut down his line, and that the girl tricked him early by ringing the bell and running.

• In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer visits a cartoon convention, featuring a booth with a cat bus on it with a grey figure underneath. This was a reference to My Neighbor Totoro.
• Kanta makes a brief appearance in Grave of the Fireflies (originally released as part of a double-feature with My Neighbor Totoro in ) in the scene following the first air raid.
• A Totoro-esque figure (along with soot sprites) appears on a sign in Generation X (comics) in issue #53 as Skin (comics) rescues Chamber (comics) from falling off a roof.
• A Totoro doll is one of the toys the character Bonnie owns who makes cameos in the June 18, movie Toy Story 3.

Additional information

• The main Totoro has become a mascot for Studio Ghibli, gracing the studio's logo at the start of their movies.
• There is a real park in Higashimurayama, Tokyo and Tokorozawa, Saitama named Hachikokuyama which was used as the inspiration for the mountain where Satsuki and Mei's mother was hospitalized.
• Matsugo, the area where Mei and Satsuki live, is a real district of Tokorozawa, Saitama.
• When the Catbus is about to take Mei and Satsuki to the hospital, the destination sign displays several real locations in Tokorozawa.

  In the final display, the final character of 七国山病院 appears upside-down.

• Asteroid has been named "Totoro" by Takao Kobayashi. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union.
• The World Expo in Japan featured a "Totoro" house, a recreation of Satsuki and Mei's house in the movie.
• Lisa Michelson who voiced Satsuki in the Streamline dub died before it was released.

  However, the movie was not dedicated to her.

Credits

• Executive producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
• Producer: Toru Hara
• Original story, screenplay written and directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
• Music composer: Joe Hisaishi
• Supervising animator: Yoshiharu Sato
• Art director: Kazuo Oga
• Color design: Michiyo Yasuda
• Color design assistant: Nobuko Mizuta
• Camera supervisor: Hisao Shirai
• Editor: Takeshi Seyama
• Audio director: Shigeharu Shiba
• Recording & sound mixing engineer: Shuji Inoue
• Sound effects: Kazutoshi Sato (E&M Planning Center)
• Dialogue editor: Akiyoshi Yoda
• Recording & mixing studio: Tokyo TV Center
• Japanese theme song performance: Azumi Inoue
• Production manager: Eiko Tanaka
• Production desk: Hirokatsu Kihara, Toshiyuki Kawabata
• Movie development laboratory: Tokyo Laboratory
• Production: Studio Ghibli

Cast

The movie stars the following voice actors:

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See also

In Spanish: Mi vecino Totoro para niños