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My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. It stars the voices of Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and focuses on two young sisters and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan.

In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an English-language dub for exclusive use on transpacific flights of Japan Airlines. Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film. This dub was released in 1993 to United States theaters, and the following year on VHS and LaserDisc in the US by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so Walt Disney Home Entertainment re-released the film on March 7, 2006 with a new dub cast.[1] This DVD release is the first version of the film in the US to include both Japanese and English language tracks.
My Neighbor Totoro

Theatrical release poster

Japanese name
Kana となりのトトロ

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Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by Toru Hara
Starring
Chika Sakamoto
Noriko Hidaka
Hitoshi Takagi
Cinematography Hisao Shirai
Edited by Takeshi Seyama
Music by Joe Hisaishi

Production
company
Studio Ghibli
Distributed by Toho

Release date
April 16, 1988

Running time 86 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office $41 million