My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro | |||||
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Kana | となりのトトロ | ||||
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Directed by | Hayao Miyazaki | ||||
Written by | Hayao Miyazaki | ||||
Produced by | Toru Hara | ||||
Starring | |||||
Cinematography | Hisao Shirai | ||||
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama | ||||
Music by | Joe Hisaishi | ||||
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Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 86 minutes | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese | ||||
Box office | $41 million |
My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. It stars the voices of Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and focuses on two young sisters and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan.
In 1989,
The film explores themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism and the joys of rural living. My Neighbor Totoro received worldwide critical acclaim, and has grossed over $41 million worldwide at the box office as of September 2019; the film also grossed significantly more from home video sales and merchandise.
My Neighbor Totoro received numerous awards, including the
The film and its titular character have become cultural icons, and made multiple cameo appearances in other films. Totoro also serves as the mascot for Studio Ghibli and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation.Plot
In 1950s Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his daughters Satsuki and Mei (approximately ten and four years old, respectively) move into an old house close to the hospital where the girls' mother, Yasuko, is recovering from a long-term illness. The house is inhabited by small, dark, dust-like
The girls wait for Tatsuo's bus, which is late. Mei falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. Totoro has only a leaf on his head for protection against the rain, prompting Satsuki to offer her umbrella to him. Delighted, he gives her a bundle of nuts and seeds in return. A giant, bus-shaped cat arrives; Totoro boards it and leaves. A few days after planting the seeds, the girls awaken at midnight to find Totoro and his fellow spirits engaged in a ceremonial dance around the planted seeds. They join in, causing the seeds to grow into an enormous tree. Totoro takes the girls for a ride on a magical flying top. In the morning, the tree is gone but the seeds have sprouted.
The girls discover that a planned visit by their mother has been postponed because of a setback in her treatment. Mei is upset and argues with Satsuki. She leaves for the hospital to take fresh corn to their mother, but gets lost on the way. Mei's disappearance prompts Satsuki and the neighbors to search for her, thinking that Mei has died. In desperation, Satsuki pleads for Totoro's help. Totoro summons the Catbus, which carries Satsuki to Mei's location, and the sisters reunite. The bus then takes them to the hospital, where the girls learn that their mother has been kept in the hospital by a minor cold but is otherwise recovering well. The girls secretly leave the ear of corn on the windowsill, where their parents discover it.
Eventually, their mother returns home and the girls play with other children while Totoro and his friends watch from afar.
Themes
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Voice cast
Character name | Japanese voice actor[6]: 175 | English voice actor (Tokuma/Streamline/50th Street Films, 1989/1993)[7] |
English voice actor (Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2005)[7] |
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Satsuki Kusakabe (草壁 サツキ) (10-year-old daughter) | Noriko Hidaka | Lisa Michelson | Dakota Fanning |
Mei Kusakabe (草壁 メイ) (4-year-old daughter) | Chika Sakamoto | Cheryl Chase | Elle Fanning |
Tatsuo Kusakabe (草壁 タツオ) (father) | Shigesato Itoi | Greg Snegoff | Tim Daly |
Yasuko Kusakabe (草壁 靖子) (mother) | Sumi Shimamoto | Alexandra Kenworthy | Lea Salonga |
Totoro (トトロ) | Hitoshi Takagi | — | Frank Welker |
Kanta Ōgaki (大垣 勘太) (a local boy) | Toshiyuki Amagasa | Kenneth Hartman | Paul Butcher |
Granny (祖母) (Nanny in the 1993 dub) | Tanie Kitabayashi | Natalie Core | Pat Carroll |
Catbus (ネコバス, Nekobasu) | Naoki Tatsuta | Carl Macek (uncredited) | Frank Welker |
Michiko (ミチ子) | Chie Kōjiro | Brianne Siddall (uncredited) | Ashley Rose Orr |
Mrs. Ogaki (Kanta's mother) | Hiroko Maruyama | Melanie MacQueen | Kath Soucie |
Mr. Ogaki (Kanta's father) | Masashi Hirose | Steve Kramer | David Midthunder |
Old Farmer | — | Peter Renaday | |
Miss Hara (Satsuki's teacher) | Machiko Washio | Edie Mirman (uncredited) | Tress MacNeille (uncredited) |
Kanta's Aunt | Reiko Suzuki | Russi Taylor | |
Otoko | Daiki Nakamura | Kerrigan Mahan (uncredited) | Matt Adler |
Ryōko | Yūko Mizutani | Lara Cody | Bridget Hoffman |
Bus Attendant | — | Kath Soucie | |
Mailman | Tomomichi Nishimura | Doug Stone (uncredited) | Robert Clotworthy |
Moving Man | Shigeru Chiba | Greg Snegoff | Newell Alexander |
Production
Development
After working on 3000 Miles in Search of a Mother, Miyazaki wanted to make a "delightful, wonderful film" that would be set in Japan with the idea to "entertain and touch its viewers, but stay with them long after they have left the theaters".[6] Initially, Miyazaki had the main characters Totoro, Mei, Tatsuo, and Kanta.[6]: 8 The director based Mei on his niece,[8] and Totoros as "serene, carefree creatures" that were "supposedly the forest keeper, but that's only a half-baked idea, a rough approximation".[6]: 5, 103
Art director Kazuo Oga was drawn to the film when Hayao Miyazaki showed him an original image of Totoro standing in a satoyama. Miyazaki challenged Oga to raise his standards, and Oga's experience with My Neighbor Totoro began Oga's career. Oga and Miyazaki debated the film's color palette; Oga wanted to paint black soil from Akita Prefecture and Miyazaki preferred the color of red soil from Kantō region.[6]: 82 The finished film was described by Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki; "It was nature painted with translucent colors".[9]
Oga's conscientious approach to My Neighbor Totoro was a style the International Herald Tribune recognized as "[updating] the traditional Japanese animist sense of a natural world that is fully, spiritually alive". The newspaper said of the film:
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.[10]
Oga's work on My Neighbor Totoro led to his continued involvement with Studio Ghibli, which assigned him jobs that would play to his strengths, and Oga's style became a trademark style of Studio Ghibli.[10]
Only one young girl, rather than two sisters, is depicted in several of Miyazaki's initial conceptual watercolor paintings, as well as on the theatrical release poster and on later home-video releases. 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."[6]: 11 Miyazaki said the film's opening sequence was not storyboarded; "The sequence was determined through permutations and combinations determined by the time sheets. Each element was made individually and combined in the time sheets ..."[6]: 27 The ending sequence depicts the mother's return home and the signs of her return to good health by playing with Satsuki and Mei outside.[6]: 149
Miyazaki stated that the story was initially intended to be set in 1955, however, the team was not thorough in the research and instead worked on a setting "in the recent past".[6]: 33 The film was originally set to be an hour long but during production it grew to respond to the social context, including the reason for the move and the father's occupation.[6]: 54 Eight animators worked on the film, which was completed in eight months.[11]
Tetsuya Endo noted numerous animation techniques were used in the film. For example, ripples were designed with "two colors of high-lighting and shading" and the rain for My Neighbor Totoro was "scratched in the cels" and superimposed for it to convey a soft feel.[6]: 156 The animators stated one month was taken to create the tadpoles, which included four colors; the water for it was also blurred.[6]: 154
Music
The music for My Neighbor Totoro was composed by Joe Hisaishi, who previously collaborated with Miyazaki on the movies Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky. Hisaishi was inspired by the contemporary composers Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and John Cage, and described Miyazaki's films as "rich and personally compeling". He hired an orchestra for the soundtrack and primarily used a Fairlight instrument.[6]: 169, 170
The soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro was first released in Japan on May 1, 1988, by Tokuma Shoten, and includes the musical score used in the film, except for five vocal pieces that were performed by Azumi Inoue, including "Stroll", "A Lost Child", and "My Neighbor Totoro".[12] It had previously been released as an Image Song CD in 1987 that contains some songs that were not included in the film.[13]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Hey Let's Go" | 2:43 |
2. | "The Village in May" | 1:38 |
3. | "A Haunted House" | 1:23 |
4. | "Mei and the Dust Bunnies" | 1:34 |
5. | "Evening Wind" | 1:01 |
6. | "Not Afraid" | 0:43 |
7. | "Let's Go to the Hospital" | 1:22 |
8. | "Mother" | 1:06 |
9. | "A Little Monster" | 3:54 |
10. | "Totoro" | 2:49 |
11. | "The Huge Tree in the Tsukamori Forest" | 2:15 |
12. | "A Lost Child" | 3:48 |
13. | "The Path of the Wind" | 3:16 |
14. | "A Soaking Wet Monster" | 2:33 |
15. | "Moonlight Flight" | 2:05 |
16. | "Mei is Missing" | 2:32 |
17. | "Cat Bus" | 2:11 |
18. | "I'm So Glad" | 1:15 |
19. | "My Neighbor Totoro- Ending Song" | 4:17 |
20. | "Hey Let's Go" | 2:43 |
Total length: | 45:18 |
Release
After writing and filming Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Castle in the Sky (1986), Hayao Miyazaki began directing My Neighbor Totoro for Studio Ghibli. 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 1988. The dual billing was considered "one of the most moving and remarkable double bills ever offered to a cinema audience".[15]
Box office
In Japan, My Neighbor Totoro initially sold 801,680 tickets and earned a
Thirty years after its original release in Japan, My Neighbor Totoro received a Chinese theatrical release in December 2018. The delay was due to long-standing political tensions between China and Japan but many Chinese people had become familiar with Miyazaki's films due to rampant video piracy.
English dubs
In 1989, US-based company
In 2004,
Disney's English-language dub premiered on October 23, 2005; it was screened at the 2005 Hollywood Film Festival.[30][32] The cable television network Turner Classic Movies (TCM) held the television premiere of Disney's new English dub on January 2006, as part of the network's tribute to Hayao Miyazaki. TCM aired the dub and the original Japanese film with English subtitles.[33] The Disney version was released on DVD in the United States on March 7, 2006.[34] In Australia, an English dub was also released by Madman Entertainment on March 15, 2006.[35]
In 2023, the film was re-released in 970 United States locations as part of celebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of its first theatrical release,[36] with showings in both Japanese with English subtitles and with the English dub.[37][38]
Home media
After the rights to the Streamline dub expired in 2004,
In Japan, My Neighbor Totoro had sold 3.5 million VHS and DVD units as of April 2012,[44] equivalent to approximately ¥16,100 million ($202 million) at an average retail price of ¥4,600 (¥4,700 on DVD and ¥4,500 on VHS).[45] In the United States, the film sold over 500,000 VHS units by 1996,[46] with the later 2010 DVD release selling a further 3.8 million units and grossing $64.5 million in the United States as of October 2018.[47]
In the UK, the film's Studio Ghibli anniversary release appeared on the annual lists of ten-best-selling
Reception
My Neighbor Totoro received widespread acclaim from film critics.
In 2001, Japanese magazine
Film critic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times identified My Neighbor Totoro as one of his "Great Movies", calling it "one of the lovingly hand-crafted works of Hayao Miyazaki". In his review, Ebert said the film "is based on experience, situation and exploration—not on conflict and threat", and added:
it would never have won its worldwide audience just because of its warm heart. It is also rich with human comedy in the way it observes the two remarkably convincing, lifelike little girls ... It is a little sad, a little scary, a little surprising and a little informative, just like life itself. It depends on a situation instead of a plot, and suggests that the wonder of life and the resources of imagination supply all the adventure you need.[63]
Steve Rose from The Guardian gave the film five stars, praising Miyazaki's "rich, bright, hand-drawn" animation and describing it as "full of benign spirituality, prelapsarian innocence and joyous discovery, all rooted in a carefully detailed reality".[64] Trevor Johnston from Time Out also awarded the film five stars, commenting on its "delicate rendering of the atmosphere" and its first half that "delicately captures both mystery and quietness".[65] Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited My Neighbor Totoro as one of his favorite films.[66] Writing for the London Evening Standard, Charlotte O'Sullivan praised the charm of the film but said it lacks complexity in comparison with Spirited Away.[67] Jordan Cronk from Slant awarded the film three-and-a-half stars but said it is "devoid of much of the fantasia of Miyazaki's more outwardly visionary work".[68] In the 1996 movie guide "Seen That, Now What?", My Neighbor Totoro was given the rating of "A". The guide stated that the film is an "enchanting, lushly animated view of the natural world with child's sense of wonder", and noting its suitability for young children while being "a perennial favorite among [film buffs]".[69]
The 1993 translation was not as well-received as the 2006 translation; Leonard Klady of Variety wrote the 1993 translation demonstrates "adequate television technical craft" that is characterized by "muted pastels, homogenized pictorial style and [a] vapid storyline". Klady described the film's environment as "obviously aimed at an international audience" but "evinces a disorienting combination of cultures that produces a nowhere land more confused than fascinating".[70] Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the 1993 translation as "very visually handsome", and said the film is "very charming" when "dispensing enchantment". Despite the highlights, Holden wrote "too much of the film, however, is taken up with stiff, mechanical chitchat".[71]
Matthew Leyland of
Awards and nominations
Year | Title | Award | Category | Result |
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1989 | My Neighbor Totoro | Kinema Junpo Awards
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Kinema Junpo Award – Best Film[73] | Won |
Readers' Choice Award – Best Japanese Film[74] | Won | |||
Mainichi Film Awards | Best Film[73] | Won | ||
Ōfuji Noburō Award[75] | Won | |||
Blue Ribbon Awards | Special Award[73] | Won | ||
Animage Anime Awards[76] | Grand Prix prize[73] | Won |
Legacy
My Neighbor Totoro was considered a milestone for writer-director Hayao Miyazaki. The popularity of the film's central character Totoro among Japanese children has been likened to that of Winnie-the-Pooh in Britain.[77] The Independent said Totoro is one of the greatest cartoon characters, describing the creature; "At once innocent and awe-inspiring, King Totoro captures the innocence and magic of childhood more than any of Miyazaki's other magical creations".[78] The Financial Times recognized the character's appeal, commenting Totoro "is more genuinely loved than Mickey Mouse could hope to be in his wildest—not nearly so beautifully illustrated—fantasies".[77] Empire also commented on Totoro's appeal, ranking him at number 18 on a list of the greatest animated characters of all time.[79]
The character of Totoro later became a mascot and official logo for Studio Ghibli.[80][81][82][83]
According to the environmental journal Ambio, My Neighbor Totoro "has served as a powerful force to focus the positive feelings that the Japanese people have for satoyama and traditional village life". The film's central character Totoro was used as a mascot by the Japanese campaign "Totoro Hometown Fund Campaign", which aimed to preserve areas of satoyama in Saitama Prefecture.[84] The fund, started in 1990 after the film's release, held an auction in August 2008 at Pixar Animation Studios to sell over 210 original paintings, illustrations, and sculptures inspired by My Neighbor Totoro.[85]
Miyazaki additionally uses Totoro as a part of his logo for Studio Ghibli.[1] Totoro also makes a cameo appearance in the Pixar film Toy Story 3 (2010)[86] but was not included in Toy Story 4 due to licensing problems.[87] Toy Story 3's art director Daisuke Tsutsumi is married to Miyazaki's niece, who inspired the character Mei in My Neighbor Totoro.[8]
A
Media
Books
In Japan in May 1988,
Sequel
Mei and the Kittenbus (めいとこねこバス, Mei to Konekobasu) is a thirteen-minute sequel to My Neighbor Totoro that was written and directed by Miyazaki.[101] Chika Sakamoto, who voiced Mei in Totoro, returned to voice Mei in this short. Hayao Miyazaki voiced Granny Cat (Neko Baa-chan) and Totoro. The sequel focuses on the character Mei Kusakabe from the original film and her one-night adventures with Kittenbus, the offspring of Catbus, and other cat-oriented vehicles.[102] The sequel was first released in Japan in 2003 and is regularly shown at Ghibli Museum[103] but has not been released on home video.
Merchandise
Licensed My Neighbor Totoro merchandise of Totoro has been sold in Japan for decades after the film's release. Sales of the film's licensed merchandise in Japan grossed ¥10.97 billion in 1999, ¥56.08 billion during 2003–2007,[104] at least ¥4.1 billion in 2008,[105] and ¥19.96 billion during 2010–2012.[104]
Stage adaptation
In May 2022, the Royal Shakespeare Company and composer Joe Hisaishi announced that a stage adaptation of the film titled My Neighbor Totoro would run from 8 October 2022 to 21 January 2023 at the Barbican Centre in London.[106] It was adapted by British playwright Tom Morton-Smith and directed by Improbable's Phelim McDermott.[107] Tickets went on sale on 19 May 2022, breaking the theater's box-office record for sales in one day which was previously held by the 2015 production of Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch.[108] The show won six Olivier Awards.[109]
On 30 March 2023, it was announced that the production will return to the Barbican for another season,[110] which began on 21 November 2023 and runs until 23 March 2024.[109][needs update]
See also
- Japan, Our Homeland and Mai Mai Miracle (also depicting Japan in the 1950s)
- Enchanted forest
Notes
- ^ The spirits are called "black soots" in early subtitles and "soot sprites" in the later English-dubbed versions.
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External links
- Official U.S. website
- My Neighbor Totoro (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- My Neighbor Totoro at IMDb
- My Neighbor Totoro at Rotten Tomatoes
- Mei and the Kitten Bus (2002) at IMDb
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro, book by Kunio Hara, 33-1/3 Japan Series, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781501345128