My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

My Neighbor Totoro rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 425K votes

Rotten Tomatoes94%

Metacritic87%

TMDb8.061/10· 9K votes

With 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 87/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized 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.

Cast of My Neighbor Totoro

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  Noriko Hidaka

  as Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)

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  Chika Sakamoto

  as Mei Kusakabe (voice)

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  Hitoshi Takagi

  as Totoro (voice)

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  Shigesato Itoi

  as Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)

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  Sumi Shimamoto

  as Yasuko Kusakabe (voice)

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  Tanie Kitabayashi

  as Granny (voice)

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  Toshiyuki Amagasa

  as Kanta Ogaki (voice)

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  Yuko Maruyama

  as Kanta's Mother (voice)

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  Masashi Hirose

  as Kanta's Father (voice)

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  Reiko Suzuki

  as Kanta's Aunt (voice)

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  Machiko Washio

  as Teacher (voice)

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  Naoki Tatsuta

  as Catbus (voice)

My Neighbor Totoro facts

Original title

となりのトトロ

Budget

$3.7M

Box office

$41M

Collection

となりのトトロ コレクション

Our take on My Neighbor Totoro

Miyazaki's 1988 classic follows two young sisters who move to the countryside near their hospitalised mother and befriend gentle forest spirits, including the giant, downy Totoro. Warm, magical and almost plotless in the best way, it's a pure distillation of childhood wonder. If its gentle enchantment moved you, the films of Studio Ghibli share its reverence for nature, family and the small miracles of being a kid.