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My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro?), or My Neighbour Totoro on UK DVD box titles, is a 1988 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.
Troma Films produced a 1993 dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Home Video. Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in 2004.
An ani-manga version of My Neighbor Totoro was published in English by Viz Communications starting on November 10, 2004.
The film was re-released by Disney on March 7, 2006. It features a new dub cast. 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.
Characters
Satsuki Kusakabe (草壁皐月 Kusakabe Satsuki) - An 11-year-old girl. Satsuki is the traditional name of the fifth month of the Japanese calendar, the equivalent of the English May.;
Mei Kusakabe (草壁メイ Kusakabe Mei) - Satsuki's four-year-old sister. Her name deliberately echoes her sister's, reflecting the fact that the story originally featured one girl, who was then divided into an older and younger sister. (The widely-distributed promotional image for the film of a girl standing next to Totoro at a bus stop reflects the earlier conception with a single child.);
Tatsuo Kusakabe(草壁達夫 Kusakabe Tatsuo) - The girls' father, who works in the archeology and anthropology departments of a Tokyo university.;
Yasuko Kusakabe(草壁靖子 Kusakabe Yasuko) - The girls' mother, recovering from an unnamed illness (confirmed by Miyazaki as being tuberculosis) at Shichikokuyama Hospital, which is noted for its tuberculosis treatment program. (Miyazaki's mother had tuberculosis when he was a boy.);
Totoro (トトロ) - A grey, friendly forest spirit, at least three meters tall. Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of torōru, Japanese for troll. There are two similar, smaller creatures in the film, also referred to as totoro; the big grey Totoro is named "Ō-Totoro", or "Miminzuku", the middle is "Chū-Totoro", or "Zuku", and the smallest is "Chibi-Totoro", or "Mimi". (These names do not appear in the film itself, but are used in ancillary materials.);
Kanta Ogaki (大垣寛太 Ogaki Kanta) - A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki. This character resembles Miyazaki in his fondness for cartoons and airplanes.;
"Granny" or Nanny (お祖母ちゃん Obachan) - Kanta's grandmother, who sometimes takes care of the girls. ;
Catbus (猫バス Nekobasu) - a house cat that undergoes a metamorphosis into a passenger bus, based on the Japanese belief that if a cat grows old enough, it gains magical shape-changing powers, and is called a bake neko. Bake neko are mentioned in several Ghibli films.;
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