My Neighbor Totoro Page #4

Synopsis: 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. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.
Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
Production: Tokuma Shoten
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
G
Year:
1988
86 min
4,819 Views


But Mei, today Father is at the university.

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You promised to be a good girl at Granny's.

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I still have two more classes

and Granny's too busy for this...

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She was good up 'til now, right?

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Granny, I'll go and speak with the teacher.

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Since Satsuki's mother is in the hospital,

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I want you all to be nice to her.

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What's that?

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It's Totoro.

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You have to be quiet.

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Okay.

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Bye bye, Mei-chan!

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Tell them I'm going to skip the club today.

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We'll let the teacher know.

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See you!

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Bye bye!

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Mei, let's hurry. It's going to rain!

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Okay.

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Ah, here it comes!

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Here.

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I won't cry. Am I a good girl?

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Yes, but what a problem.

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Dear Guardian Spirit, please let us

share your roof for a little while.

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But...

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Good thing. Right, Sis?

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It's got holes in it.

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Father forgot his umbrella.

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I'm going, too.

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I said I forgot it!

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What idiot forgets his umbrella on a rainy day?

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Ouch!

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You broke it while playing around, I bet.

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I did not!

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Excuse me.

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Oh, Satsuki. And Mei-chan, too.

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Granny!

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Thank you for today.

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You're welcome. It wasn't much.

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Kanta lent us this umbrella.

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Really? That kid?

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A broken old thing like that!

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Mei was with me, so I was glad.

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But Kanta got wet.

Thank you very much.

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That's all right.

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He's always so dirty anyway,

he must have gotten a little bit cleaner.

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Are you off to meet your father?

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Yes.

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What good girls you are.

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Bye bye, Mei-chan.

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Bye bye!

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Who was that?

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I don't know.

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There it comes.

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Are you getting on?

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All right, drive on.

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Father wasn't on it.

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He'll be on the next one.

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Do you want to wait at Granny's house?

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What's wrong?

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Mei.

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Are you sleepy?

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That's why I asked you...

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Want to go to Granny's house now?

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It won't be much longer.

Hang in there.

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The bus is sure coming late.

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Come on.

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Totoro?

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Ah, just a minute.

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I'll lend you this...

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Take it, Mei's slipping off.

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Hold it like this.

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The bus is coming!

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Totoro took Father's umbrella...

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Ah, sorry, sorry.

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All right, drive on.

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The train was late and I missed the bus.

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Were you worried?

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It came! Father, it came! It came!

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A cat, a cat bus!

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What?

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It was huge!

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With big eyes like these!

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It was wonderful!

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We met him! We met Totoro!

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How wonderful!

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Come on.

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Mother, it feels like my heart is still racing.

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It was the scariest, funniest day I've ever had.

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Totoro gave us a lovely present...

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...wrapped in bamboo leaves

and tied with dragon whiskers.

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At home, we opened it.

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It was full of magic nuts and seeds!

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We decided to plant them

in the garden

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to make a lovely forest.

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But...

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They haven't sprouted yet.

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Every day, Mei says

"Still nothing, there's still nothing."

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She's just like the crab

of the monkey-crab fable.

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It's nearly summer vacation.

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Dearest, dear Mom,

get well soon. Love, Satsuki.

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Come on. Bed time.

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Lights off!

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Wait!

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Father, do you think they will come out tomorrow?

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Well, I'm sure Totoro would know. Good night.

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Mei!

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That's where we planted the seeds.

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Yeah.

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We did it!

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Mei, we're the wind!

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Yeah!

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The tree is gone.

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We did it!

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It was a dream.

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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest animation directors. Born in Bunkyō Ward of Tokyo, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Toei Animation he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director Isao Takahata. Notable films to which Miyazaki contributed at Toei include Doggie March and Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon. He provided key animation to other films at Toei, such as Puss in Boots and Animal Treasure Island, before moving to A-Pro in 1971, where he co-directed Lupin the Third Part I alongside Takahata. After moving to Zuiyō Eizō (later known as Nippon Animation) in 1973, Miyazaki worked as an animator on World Masterpiece Theater, and directed the television series Future Boy Conan. He joined Telecom Animation Film/Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first feature films, The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979 and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, as well as the television series Sherlock Hound. Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985. He directed multiple films with Ghibli, including Castle in the Sky in 1986, My Neighbor Totoro in 1988, Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989, and Porco Rosso in 1992. The films were met with commercial and critical success in Japan. Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke was the first animated film to win the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, and briefly became the highest-grossing film in Japan following its release in 1997; its distribution to the Western world greatly increased Ghibli's popularity and influence outside Japan. His 2001 film Spirited Away became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards and considered among the greatest films of the decade. Miyazaki's later films—Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises—also enjoyed critical and commercial success. Following the release of The Wind Rises, Miyazaki announced his retirement from feature films, though he returned to work on a new feature film in 2016. Miyazaki's works are characterized by the recurrence of themes such as humanity's relationship with nature and technology, the wholesomeness of natural and traditional patterns of living, the importance of art and craftsmanship, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic in a violent world. The protagonists of his films are often strong girls or young women, and several of his films present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities. Miyazaki's works have been highly praised and awarded; he was named a Person of Cultural Merit for outstanding cultural contributions in November 2012, and received the Academy Honorary Award for his impact on animation and cinema in November 2014. In 2002, American film critic Roger Ebert suggested that Miyazaki may be the best animation filmmaker in history, praising the depth and artistry of his films. more…

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