FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
My Neighbor Totoro
Scores
- IMDb8.1/10as of 2026-03-15
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer93%as of 2024-03-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.4/10as of 2021-10-10
- Metacritic87/100as of 2024-12-06
What it is
My Neighbor 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 who, after moving with their father to the countryside, experience interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar Japan.
At a glance
- Genres
- Fantasy
- Original language
- Japanese
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