My Neighbor Totoro follows sisters Satsuki and Mei as they settle into a new countryside home and discover Totoro, a gentle forest spirit only children can see.
Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro is a movie released 16 April 1988, an original story[1]
In 1950s Japan, Tatsuo Kusakabe moves with daughters Satsuki and Mei to the countryside to be near their hospitalized mother; Mei befriends the forest spirit Totoro, and Satsuki soon meets him too[1]
In 1988 it won Best Film and the Ofuji Noburo award at the Mainichi Film Awards, a Special Award at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards, the Animage Grand Prix, and Kinema Junpo awards[1]
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