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 comforts her by telling her that this is the 'keeper of the forest,' and that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to. Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree. She falls asleep atop the large totoro, but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground in a dense briar clearing. She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as 'Totoro'. She discovers two small magical creatures who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. One day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house. It is implied that they are going to find another empty house-their natural habitat. When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind.

Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called susuwatari-small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. In 1958 Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house to be closer to the hospital where their mother Yasuko is recovering from a 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. This version was also released in Australia by Madman on Maand in the UK by Optimum Releasing on March 27, 2006. The rights to this dub expired in 2004, and so was re-released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on Mawith a new dub cast. This dub was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Fox Video in 1993 and on DVD in 2002. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988. The film stars Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and tells the story of two young daughters (Hidaka and Sakamoto) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. Kiki's Delivery Service Source 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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