Summary: When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. Kind of like what My Neighbor Totoro went through, if you think about it.Īnd this might not be saying much, but this is Satoshi Kon's final cel-animated film as he would switch to digital hand-drawn animated film after this one. 50th Street Films Release Date: April 16, 1988. It wasn't until 2019 when Eleven Arts acquired North American rights and released the film again with new English dub.
At first, the flm was released by Go Fish Pictures, an arthouse/foreign film division of DreamWorks, back in September 12, 2003, but apparently, based on what I've looked into, the film didn't have an English dub back then and actually got an English dub in 2005. There's also another unusual aspect about this film's American release. When two girls move to the country to be. With Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). My Neighbor Totoro: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. So for those of you who are curious on why I didn't talk about this film before, the film was premiered in Fantasia Film Festival on July 28, 2001, but it didn't get an official release until Septemand by the way, that's a Japanese release date, so even they didn't get to see the film for over a year after its completion. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother.