Delighted to be of assistance, he summons the Catbus, which carries her to where the confused Mei sits. Eventually, Satsuki returns in desperation to the camphor tree and pleads for Totoro's help. Mei's disappearance prompts Satsuki and the neighbors to search for her. Mei, believing that her mother can be cured by healthy food, sets off on foot to the hospital with an ear of corn. Frustrated and frightened, she yells at Mei, then stomps away. Satsuki takes this very hard, having reached the age where she fully understands the concept of death. The girls find out that a planned visit by their mother has to be postponed because of a setback in her treatment. In the morning, the tree is gone, but the seeds have indeed sprouted. Totoro takes his colleagues and the girls for a ride on a magical flying top. The girls join in, whereupon the seeds sprout, and then grow and combine into an enormous tree. A few days later, they awaken at midnight to find Totoro and his two miniature colleagues engaged in a ceremonial dance around the planted nuts and seeds. Shortly after, their father’s bus arrives. A bus-shaped giant cat halts at the stop, and Totoro boards it, taking the umbrella. In return, he gives her a bundle of nuts and seeds. Totoro is delighted at both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops. ![]() He only has a leaf on his head for protection against the rain, so Satsuki offers him the umbrella she had taken along for her father. As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. One rainy night, the girls are waiting for their father's bus and grow worried when he does not arrive on the bus they expect him on. Her father later tells her that this is the "keeper of the forest". She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit ( ō or "large" totoro), which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as "Totoro" (in the original Japanese dub, this stems from Mei's mispronunciation of the word for "troll"). She follows the ears under the house where she discovers two small magical creatures ( chibi or "dwarf" totoro and chu or "medium" totoro), who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. While she is playing outside one day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass. When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits (identified as "black soots" in early subtitles and "soot sprites" in the later English dubbed version) leave the house to drift away on the wind. The daughters find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called susuwatari- small house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. In 1958, the Kusakabe family reunites when a university professor and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei (approximately ten and four years old, respectively) move into an old house in rural Japan to be closer to the hospital where their mother is recovering from an unnamed, long-term illness. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version. The film was re-released by Disney on March 7, 2006. Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in 2004. It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Video. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. In 1988, Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines and its Oneworld partners. The film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Tokuma Japan Communications' US subsidiary in 1993 with the title My Friend Totoro. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. My Neighbor Totoro ( となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro ?), is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.
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