Satsuki, Mei and their father drive to their new home on the country and on the drive they see a very strange and shy little boy.
When they arrive at their new home Satsuki and Mei are very excited too see the house, but dad says they must take their shoes off.
Instead of taking them off they walk on their knees and finds acorns everywhere, later they go in the bathhouse which is full of these little black puffballs who scatter in the room.
They are very scared of them so they tell dad about them.
Dad tells them to go to the old attic there they find more of these little creasures and Mei catch one of them but when she shows Satsuki her hands it´s all black and filthy.
Granny who helps them out in the house explains why those creatures are in their house.
The boy who was very shy before arrive at their home with a basket.
On the night the family takes a warm bath together, meanwhile a storm breaks out who makes the house shake and they are very scared but dad calm them down saying that they must laugh to make things that scares you dissapear!
The next day they all go to visit mom, she is sick but is soon coming home and the following day is school day for Satsuki but Mei is too young to go to school so she is exploring the area around the house.
When Mei is exploring the area she finds many acorns and take them but she also see two little creatures walking in the area.
She tries to catch them and follow them into a forest which leeds her to a huge rabbit hole where she finds a big monster!
This movie is so delightful, joyful, in the end i had that pleasure of happiness that i almost cried and that doesn´t happen a lot to me.
I think this is Miyazaki´s most accessible movies for example Howls Moving Castle and Spirited Away is way more strange and weird than this one.
This is a fairly simple story of the personification of the wonder, imigination of childhood and how childhood imigination mixes in with nature.
Totoro is our neighbour so we have to be good to our neighbour, everything he represents and he be a good neighbour to us!
Miyazaki has ways of capturing little moments to make them more natural like when the father looks out of the window while driving and his hat almost fall off and thats a very natural moment and when Mei put on her sandals you see the little strap like it doesn´t go around her heel it goes under it.
What is so great about this movie is that there is no main conflict, no moral lessons, no standard blue print story or villian and it reminds you of being a young kid.
The only nick picks was that i felt that the dad seems most of the time not to care much and the mum doesn´t look that sick.
Miyazaki did a masterpiece again, the music, story, animation, voice work was amazing,, the characters of Satsuki, Mei and Totoro i loved!
Rating 10/10
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