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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics My neighbor totoro , studio ghibli , movies , movie , spirited Away , kiki's delivery service Language English. In the morning, the tree is gone but the seeds have indeed sprouted; it is left unclear whether the girls were dreaming. The girls find out that a planned visit by Yasuko has to be postponed because of a setback in her treatment.
Mei does not take this well, and argues with Satsuki, later leaving for the hospital to bring fresh corn to Yasuko. Her disappearance prompts Satsuki and the neighbors to search for her. In desperation, Satsuki returns to the camphor tree and pleads for Totoro's help. Delighted to help, he summons the Catbus, which carries her to where the lost Mei sits. The bus then whisks them over the countryside to see Yasuko in the hospital.
The girls overhear a conversation between their parents and discover that she has been kept in hospital by a minor cold but is otherwise doing well. They secretly leave the ear of corn on the windowsill, where it is discovered by their parents, and return home. Eventually, Mei and Satsuki's mother returns home, and the sisters play with other children, while Totoro and his friends watch them from afar.
Art directorKazuo Oga was drawn to the film when Hayao Miyazaki showed him an original image of Totoro standing in a satoyama. The director challenged Oga to raise his standards, and Oga's experience with My Neighbor Totoro jump-started the artist's career. Oga's conscientious approach to My Neighbor Totoro was a style that the International Herald Tribune recognized as '[updating] the traditional Japanese animist sense of a natural world that is fully, spiritually alive'.
The newspaper described the final product:. Set in a period that is both modern and nostalgic, the film creates a fantastic, yet strangely believable universe of supernatural creatures coexisting with modernity. A great part of this sense comes from Oga's evocative backgrounds, which give each tree, hedge and twist in the road an indefinable feeling of warmth that seems ready to spring into sentient life.
The studio assigned jobs to Oga that would play to his strengths, and Oga's style became a trademark style of Studio Ghibli. In several of Miyazaki's initial conceptual watercolors, as well as on the theatrical release poster and on later home video releases, only one young girl is depicted, rather than two sisters. 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.
And that was difficult. Each element was made individually and combined in the time sheets The storyboard depicts the town of Matsuko as the setting, with the year being ; Miyazaki stated that it was not exact and the team worked on a setting 'in the recent past'. Miyazaki has said that Totoro is 'not a spirit: he's only an animal. I believe he lives on acorns. He's supposedly the forest keeper, but that's only a half-baked idea, a rough approximation.
Miyazaki's production paralleled his colleague Isao Takahata's production of Grave of the Fireflies. Miyazaki's film was financed by executive producer Yasuyoshi Tokuma, and both My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies were released on the same bill in The dual billing was considered 'one of the most moving and remarkable double bills ever offered to a cinema audience'.
My Neighbour Totoro received a theatrical release in China for the first time in 30 years, in December The delayed theatrical release in China was due to long-standing political tensions between China and Japan, but many Chinese became familiar with Miyazaki's films due to rampant video piracy.
In April , Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film as a theatrical release, and was later released onto VHS by Fox Video. In , Disney produced an all new English dub of the movie to be released after the rights to the Streamline dub had expired.
Kusakabe, and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus.
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