My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro is an animated fantasy centered on two school girls and their journey to relocate to be with their mother as it involved an adventure with a forest spirit known as Totoro.
22 October 1946, Tokyo, Japan
21 February 1919, Ford City, Pennsylvania, USA
15 August 1944
4 May 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
12 September 1991, New Jersey, USA
31 August 1967, Tokyo, Japan
26 July 1957, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 June 1969, Fresno, California, USA
August 16, 2015
A typically erratic effort from Hayao Miyazaki...
October 02, 2014
...a clarion call for the legitimacy of imagination - not only in stories, but in the real world.
December 08, 2014
Sheer enchantment.
May 24, 2013
A beautifully observed film that has become a guaranteed charmer for all ages.
September 01, 2008
Obviously aimed at an international audience, the film evinces a disorienting combination of cultures that produces a nowhere land more confused than fascinating.
December 08, 2014
Miyazaki's appreciation of miraculous possibilities and childhood visions is what drives Totoro.
June 19, 2007
The lack of sentimentality will be utterly refreshing to those raised on a diet of Disney.
May 23, 2013
The world the characters inhabit is less expressionist than impressionist, blessed with a delicate evocation of natural light and color that subtly incorporates Miyazaki's environmentalism.
December 08, 2014
One of the finest family films ever made.
May 24, 2013
Not as complex or tense as Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, released 13 years later). Still, few things are.
December 08, 2014
Despite these limits, My Neighbor Totoro is a gentle and affirming film.
February 20, 2014
A film that crosses generations and cultural barriers: watching it, it's hard not to feel like a kid again.

