Comments on: Studio Ghibli Countdown: ‘My Neighbor Totoro’

By: Jordan Briskin

Jordan Briskin — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:40:00 +0000

In reply to Powell Pressburger. Really?! I had no idea that the film was inspired by those events!

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:50:00 +0000

Just saw Totoro at my local cinema this past weekend during the first of a series of “Ghibli Fest” movies going on for the next several months. I really really love this movie. And it’s not even my favorite Miyazaki film (that goes to Nausicaa). Totoro is just a good, warm-hearted movie I would recommend to anyone of any age, religion, ethnicity, etc.

By: Sweetsirhiss

Sweetsirhiss — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:39:00 +0000

” The audience here finds a film of deeper personal emotions of the less public conflicts in life. ” That was so well put 🙂 What a great review!

By: Powell Pressburger

Powell Pressburger — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:35:00 +0000

There is a very dark inspiration to this exquisite film: the “Sayama Incident” of 1963 when a young girl was kidnapped for ransom, and killed. He older sister seemed to be traumatised – she found the body – and when asked what she saw, she said “I met a large Tanuki” (looks like a raccoon) and “I saw a cat monster”. This was Sayama in the Saitama Prefecture in Japan. In the film, on the box in Japanese behind the box of crockery is written “Sayama Tea”. The murder happened in May. The youngest child in the movie is called Mei. The oldest sister is called Satsuki, which is another way of saying “the month of May”. The cat bus has as destination in Japanese, Grave Road.

By: Jordan Briskin

Jordan Briskin — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:20:00 +0000

Somehow, the world in which the film takes place strikes me as a spiritual amalgam of Sesame Street and the Hundred Acre Wood, a place where everyone’s neighbors look out for each other, and one is always close to nature.

By: Jackson Staninger

Jackson Staninger — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:41:00 +0000

I can’t get enough of this film.
It has the economic and simplicity sophistication of Dumbo and the Iron Giant.
And It perfectly embodies the thoguhts and perspectives of a child. I can’t think of another movie that does it in quite the same way

By: Q-A the Authoress

Q-A the Authoress — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:34:00 +0000

Can we all just take a moment and think how this movie gave us one of the best dad’s depicted on the big screen?

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:57:00 +0000

I have a problem with any person who has a problem with this movie.

By: Marielle

Marielle — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:14:00 +0000

I love so many scenes, like when they wait at the bus stop in the rain, it’s so funny and iconic, and everything with the cat bus is awesome too, but I sort of dislike the bigger storyline. I think it’s a pretty cheap trick to make us think that the little sister drowns and that the mom dies only to finish it off by revealing it was all fake false alarms.

By: Ryan Prieto

Ryan Prieto — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:51:00 +0000

In reply to Haley Gilbertson. So well put Haley. Would love to watch this during summer with an 'Otter Pop' in my hand.