My Neighbor Totoro

Japan, 1988

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Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalised mother and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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Collection

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Credits

producer

Ned Lott

Tooru Hara

Toshio Suzuki

production company

Tokuma Shoten

Duration

01:26:00

Production places
Japan
Production dates
1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-8392

Language

Japanese

Subject categories

Animation

Family

Fantasy

TMDB-Movie

8392

Wikidata

Q39571

Collected

1438 times

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