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My Neighbor Totoro (movie)

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    Mei to Konekobasu (movie) (spinoff)

Alternative title:
Il mio vicino Totoro (Italian)
Long Mao
Mein Nachbar Totoro (German)
Meu amigo Totoro (Portuguese)
Meu Vizinho Totoro (Portuguese)
Mi Vecino Totoro (Spanish)
Min granne Totoro (Swedish)
Mój Sąsiad Totoro (Polish)
Mon voisin Totoro (French)
Naapurini Totoro
Tonari no Totoro (Japanese)
Мой сосед Тоторо (Russian)
Наш сосед Тоторо (Russian)
となりのトトロ (Japanese)
龍貓 (Chinese (Taiwan))
이웃의 토토로 (Korean)
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Two young girls, Mei and Satsuki, move into a new home that is close to the hospital that their mother is in. In their yard is an extremely large tree which is home to three Totoros, gods of the forest. Soon after, news from the hospital comes up that their mother can't come home as promised, so Mei (the younger daughter) runs away from home to visit her mom. Satsuki then needs to turn to Totoro for help in finding her sister.
User Ratings: 2617 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 928 votes (sub:603, dub:256, raw:21, ?:13, Spa.sub:6, Fre.sub:5, Rus.sub:4, Fre.dub:4, Rus.dub:3, Por.sub:3, Ger.dub:3, edit.dub:3, Spa.dub:2, Swe.sub:1, Swe.dub:1)
 Excellent: 760 votes (sub:485, dub:219, raw:16, Spa.sub:10, ?:8, Ger.dub:5, edit.dub:3, Ita.sub:3, Fre.sub:3, Fre.dub:2, Swe.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ita.dub:1, Spa.dub:1, Kor.dub:1, Por.dub:1)
 Very good: 451 votes (sub:294, dub:125, ?:7, raw:6, Ger.dub:4, Fre.sub:3, Spa.dub:2, Swe.dub:2, Pol.sub:2, Ita.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Swe.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Good: 267 votes (sub:169, dub:80, ?:6, edit.dub:3, raw:2, Rus.sub:2, Ger.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Ara.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 89 votes (sub:50, dub:29, edit.dub:4, ?:2, Rus.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 43 votes (sub:32, dub:10, Ger.dub:1)
 Not really good: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:4, raw:3, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, Dut.sub:1)
 Weak: 27 votes (sub:17, dub:6, raw:2, Spa.sub:2)
 Bad: 9 votes (sub:3, dub:3, ?:2, Por.sub:1)
 Awful: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Worst ever: 11 votes (sub:6, dub:4, Spa.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 3912 users, rank: #100
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.6543 (Excellent-.34), std. dev.: 1.5761, rank: #93
Weighted mean: 8.5917 (Excellent-.40), rank: #85
Bayesian estimate: 8.58762 (Excellent-.41), rank: #38
Running time: 86 minutes
Vintage:
1988-04-01
1998-05-30 (France)
Premiere date:
1988-04-16 (Japan)
Opening Theme:
"Sanpo (さんぽ; Stroll)" by Azumi Inoue
Ending Theme:
"Tonari no Totoro (となりのトトロ; My Neighbor Totoro)" by Azumi Inoue
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Trivia: We have 2
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Related releases:
    My Neighbor Totoro - (Artbook) 2005-11-08 (from $19.79)
    My Neighbor Totoro - Picture Book (Artbook) 2005-11-08 (from $10.19)
    My Neighbor Totoro (2-disc) (DVD) 2006-03-07 (from $24.29)
    My Neighbor Totoro - Film Comic (GN 3) 2005-01-05 (from $5.12)
    My Neighbor Totoro (Dub.VHS) 2004-08-31
    My Neighbor Totoro (Dub.VHS) 2002-12-03

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Original Script: Hayao Miyazaki

Music: Joe Hisaishi

Original creator: Hayao Miyazaki

Original story: Hayao Miyazaki

Art director: Kazuo Oga

Animation director: Yoshiharu Sato

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Executive producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Producer: Toru Hara

Animation:
Komasa
Aki Yamagata
Akiko Ishii
Akiko Teshima
Emiko Iwayanagi
Hajime Yoshida
Junichi Nagano
Kazuko Fukutomi
Kazumi Okabe
Kazutka Ozaki
Keiichiro Hattori
Keiko Watanabe
Kiyo Mizutani
Kiyoko Makita
Koji Ito
Kumiko Ohtani
Kyoko Higurashi
Masakazu Okada
Masako Sakano
Masayuki Ota
Nagisa Miyazaki
Naoki Kitamura
Naoko Takenawa
Rie Niidome
Ritsuko Shiina
Ritsuko Tanaka
Riwako Matsui
Shinji Morohashi
Takateru Kawamura
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Yuka Endo
Yukari Maeda
Yukari Yamaura

Animation Check:
Hitomi Tateno
Yasuko Tachiki

Assistant director: Tetsuya Endo

Assistant Editor: Hiroshi Adachi

Assistant Recording Director: Naoko Asari

Background Art:
Akira Yamakawa
Hajime Matsuoka
Hidetoshi Kaneko
Junko Ina
Keiko Tamura
Kiyoko Sugawara
Kiyomi Oota
Makoto Shiraishi
Masaki Yoshizaki
Nobuhiro Otsuka
Sadahiko Tanaka
Shinji Kimura
Toshiro Nozaki
Tsuyoshi Matsumuro
Youji Takeshige
Yuko Matsuura

Camera: Hisao Shirai

Checking:
Aiko Takahashi
Chiyomi Morisawa
Fumi Yamane
Hatsue Tanaka
Hiroe Takekura
Hiromi Hanawa
Hisako Yoshida
Junko Adachi
Komei Fujino
Mayumi Watabe
Michiko Nishimaki
Michiko Ode
Michiko Ota
Miyoko Oka
Naoko Okawa
Naomi Takahashi
Nobuko Watanabe
Noriko Yamamura
Reiko Shibuya
Reiko Suzuki
Toki Yanagi
Tokuko Harada
Tomoko Asahi
Toshichika Iwakiri
Toyoko Kajita
Yoko Fujino
Yorimi Sawauchi
Yoshiko Murata
Yuki Kyono
Yuki Takagi
Yuriko Kudo

Color design: Nobuko Mizuta

Dialog Editing: Akira Iida

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Finish Check:
Kenji Narita
Masae Motohashi
Miwako Nakamura
Teruyo Tateyama

Finish Technique Cooperation:
Josai Duplo
Mamoru Murao

Finishing: Michiyo Yasuda

Original Art:
Hideko Tagawa
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Katsuya Kondo
Makiko Futaki
Makoto Tanaka
Masaaki Endou
Masako Shinohara
Shinji Otsuka
Toshio Kawaguchi
Tsukasa Tannai
Yoshinori Kanada

Original Art Cooperator:
Masaki Kudo
Nobumasa Shinkawa
Yutaka Okamura

Photography:
Hiroshi Ito
Hiroshi Noguchi
Katsuji Suzuki
Katsunori Maehara
Kazumi Iketani
Kiyoshi Saeki
Mitsuko Nanba
Motoaki Kiegami
Noriko Suzuki
Shinji Ikegami
Tetsuo Oofuji
Tomko Sugiyama
Yoichi Kuroda

Production Chief: Eiko Tanaka

Production Coordination:
Hirokatsu Kihara
Toshiyuki Kawabata

Production Design: Yoshiharu Sato

Production Planning Supervisor:
Hideo Ogata
Tatsumi Yamashita

Recording:
Koji Fukushima
Makoto Sumiya
Mutsuyoshi Otani

Recording Director: Shigeharu Shiba

Sound Effects: Kazutoshi Sato

Sound Effects Assistant: Hironori Ono

Sound Mixing: Shuji Inoue

Special Effects: Kaoru Tanifuji

Story Boards: Hayao Miyazaki

Theme Song Performance: Azumi Inoue

Titles: Takagu Atelier

 

Chika Sakamoto as Mei Kusakabe

Hitoshi Takagi as Dai-Totoro

Noriko Hidaka as Satsuki Kusakabe

Shigesato Itoi as Tatsuo Kusakabe (Mei + Satsuki's father)

Tanie Kitabayashi as Granny

Toshiyuki Amagasa as Kanta

Daiki Nakamura as Man on tractor

Hiroko Maruyama as Kenta's mother

Machiko Washio as Elementary school teacher

Masashi Hirose as Kenta's father

Reiko Suzuki as Old lady of Honke (house with telephone)

Shigeru Chiba as Mowing man

Sumi Shimamoto as Yasuko Kusakabe (Mei + Satsuki's mother)

Tomohiro Nishimura as Postal messenger

Yuko Mizutani as Woman on tractor

Akiko Hiramatsu

Chie Koujiro

Ikue Ohtani

Mitsuko Ishida

Naoki Tatsuta

TARAKO

Japanese companies 

Animation:
Anime Torotoro
Dragon Production
Studio Fantasia

Background Art:
Atelier BWCA
Kobayashi Production

Checking:
Domusha
Group Joy
Kyoei Production
Studio Beam
Studio Hibari
Studio Killy
Studio Run Run
Studio Step
Trans Arts Co.

Cooperation: Hakuhodo Inc.

Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory

Music Production: Tokuma Japan Corporation

Original Art Cooperator: Madhouse Studios

Photography: Studio Cosmos

Production: Studio Ghibli

Recording Production: Omnibus Promotion

Recording Studio: Tokyo TV Center

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Script: Gregory Snegoff (Streamline dub)

Adaptation:
Carl Macek (Streamline dub)
Cindy Davis Hewitt (Disney dub)
Donald H. Hewitt (Disney dub)

Music Coordinator: Yoshi Maki (Streamline dub)

Song Lyrics: Severin Browne (Streamline dub)

Songs Translation:
Eugene H. Saburi (Streamline dub)
Kaiulani Kidani (Streamline dub)

 

Cheryl Chase as Mei Kusakabe (Streamline Dub)

Dakota Fanning as Satsuki Kusakabe (Disney dub)

Elle Fanning as Mei Kusakabe (Disney dub)

Frank Welker as Totoro (Disney Dub)

Lisa Michaelson as Satsuki Kusakabe (Streamline Dub)

Gregory Snegoff as Dad (Streamline Dub)

Kenneth Hartman as Kanta (Streamline Dub)

Natalie Core as Nanny (Streamline Dub)

Pat Carroll as Granny (Disney dub)

Timothy Daly as Mr. Kusakabe (Disney Dub)

Alexandra Kenworthy as Mother (Streamline Dub)

Brianne Siddall as Michiko (Streamline dub)

Frank Welker as Cat Bus (Disney Dub)

Lara Cody as Farm Girl (Streamline Dub)

Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe (Disney Dub)

Melanie MacQueen as Kanta's Mom (Streamline Dub)

Steve Kramer as Farmer (Streamline Dub)

English companies 

Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network
Turner Classic Movies

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Licensed by:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
Troma /Fox Home Video
Viz Media (artbook)


French cast 
French staff 
(none)

Donald Reignoux as Kanta

Colette Venhard as Grand-Mère

Colette Venhardt as la grand-mère 

Françoise Cadol as la mère

Marie-Charlotte Leclaire as Meï

Mélanie Laurent as Satsuki

Thierry Ragueneau as le père

Bernard Métraux

French companies 

Broadcaster: Canal +

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya)

Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)

Spanish cast 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Gerhard Jilka as Totoro

Marisa Sedlmeier as Satsuki Kusakabe

Paulina Bohlmann as Mei Kusakabe

Christine Stichler as Yasuko Kusakabe

Monika John as Großmutter

Moritz Günther as Kanta

Philipp Brammer as Tatsuo Kusakabe

Inez Günther as Lehrerin

German companies 

Annouced: Universum-Films

Broadcaster: Super RTL


Polish staff 
(none)
Polish companies 

Distributor: Monolith Films

Polish cast 
(none)
Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 
(none)
 

Leda Figueiró as Mei

Letícia Quinto as Satsuki

Vagner Fagundes as vizinho

Zaira Zordan as Vovó

Portuguese companies 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Deltamac (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
Chinese (Hong Kong) staff 
Chinese (Hong Kong) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Intercontinental Video Limited

Chinese (Hong Kong) cast 
(none)
 
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