This page will contain images about Totoro, as they become available.My Neighbor TotoroMy Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ - Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated movie 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 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 will be re-released by Disney on March 7, 2006. It features a new dub cast. The DVD release will be 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
PlotSpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. My Neighbor Totoro.The movie is a slow-moving yet fascinating portrayal of Japanese rural life. It is set during a summer of the 1950s. A university professor from the city and his two daughters move into an old house near a forest, while his wife recovers from tuberculosis in a nearby convalescence home. His daughters discover "soot sprites", which their father rationalizes as makkurokurosuke — an optical illusion seen when moving from light to dark places (glossed as dust bunnies in the 1993 English dub; in the Disney version they are called "Soot Gremlins".). Mei discovers a small Totoro, which leads her to find a large forest spirit living in a hollow under a Camphor Laurel by a small jinja. Mei names it Totoro. Her father tells her that this is the "King of the Forest". Not everyone can see the spirits of the forest, only the pure of heart. Mei is enchanted with them and determined to find the King of the Forest. One rainy night, while the girls are waiting for their father's bus which is running late, they encounter the giant Totoro who is looking rather forlorn with only a leaf for protection against the rain. When Satsuki gives him her umbrella, he's delighted at both the shelter and the sounds it makes as water hits it. This begins a series of encounters as the spirits allow the children to partake in their nightly activities. Later, Mei and Satsuki are disappointed to learn that their mother's planned homecoming visit that upcoming weekend has been postponed because mother's condition has worsened. Satsuki understands why the visit was cancelled, but Mei does not, and a frustrated Satsuki yells at Mei and the girls end up not speaking to each other for several hours. Then, Mei gets lost while trying to bring an ear of healthy corn to her mother at the hospital, and a frantic Satsuki runs everywhere searching for her. Satsuki and the villagers get a major scare when a girl's sandal is found in a pond and they begin to fear that Mei has drowned, but Satsuki confirms that the sandal is not Mei's. Satsuki finally seeks Totoro's help. He is delighted to be of assistance, and with his help Mei is quickly found. The movie features the Catbus, a grinning feline bus summoned by Totoro which rescues Mei and whisks her and Satsuki over the countryside to see their mother in hospital. When the cat bus finally leaves them it fades into the evening shadows, in the manner of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat. In the movie's final scene, Professor and Mrs. Kusakabe discover Mei's ear of corn on the windowsill of Mrs. Kusakabe's hospital room, carved with the inscription "To Mommy," as the girls and the Totoros watch from a nearby tree, happy that mother seems to be feeling better. Trivia
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CastThe movie stars the following actors (listed in (Disney) English version/(Streamline) English version/Japanese version format):
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The movie stars the following actors (listed in (Disney) English version/(Streamline) English version/Japanese version format):. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "V" and "v" for upper and lower case respectively. Kusakabe's hospital room, carved with the inscription "To Mommy," as the girls and the Totoros watch from a nearby tree, happy that mother seems to be feeling better. The EBCDIC code for capital V is 229 and for lowercase v is 165. Kusakabe discover Mei's ear of corn on the windowsill of Mrs. The ASCII code for capital V is 86 and for lowercase v is 118; or in binary 01010110 and 01110110, respectively. In the movie's final scene, Professor and Mrs. In Unicode the capital V is codepoint U+0056 and the lowercase v is U+0076. When the cat bus finally leaves them it fades into the evening shadows, in the manner of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat. See IPA chart for English for pronunciation key. The movie features the Catbus, a grinning feline bus summoned by Totoro which rescues Mei and whisks her and Satsuki over the countryside to see their mother in hospital. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, 'v' represents the voiced labiodental fricative. He is delighted to be of assistance, and with his help Mei is quickly found. To differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the shape of "v" was rounded during the Middle Ages to represent the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter "u". Satsuki finally seeks Totoro's help. By about the second century AD, "v" was simplified even further as a /w/ sound (ironically, this was the original sound of Semitic Waw); thus "via" came to be pronounced "wi-a." From the fifth century on, it developed into the modern /v/ sound, as in "vile.". Satsuki and the villagers get a major scare when a girl's sandal is found in a pond and they begin to fear that Mei has drowned, but Satsuki confirms that the sandal is not Mei's. Thus, num was pronounced "noom" and via was pronounced "oo-i-a", but in a quick pronounciation as two syllables. Then, Mei gets lost while trying to bring an ear of healthy corn to her mother at the hospital, and a frantic Satsuki runs everywhere searching for her. In Latin, it was borrowed in early times as V (without the stem) to represent the same /u/ sound, and eventually it became slurred, taking on a double nature as consonant and vowel. Satsuki understands why the visit was cancelled, but Mei does not, and a frustrated Satsuki yells at Mei and the girls end up not speaking to each other for several hours. In Greek, the letter "upsilon" (Y) was adapted from waw to represent, at first, the vowel /u/ as in "moon" (although in later times, this vowel came to be pronounced /y/, a rounded vowel as in English "few"). Later, Mei and Satsuki are disappointed to learn that their mother's planned homecoming visit that upcoming weekend has been postponed because mother's condition has worsened. See F for details. This begins a series of encounters as the spirits allow the children to partake in their nightly activities. V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. When Satsuki gives him her umbrella, he's delighted at both the shelter and the sounds it makes as water hits it. Its name in English is pronounced vee. One rainy night, while the girls are waiting for their father's bus which is running late, they encounter the giant Totoro who is looking rather forlorn with only a leaf for protection against the rain. V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Mei is enchanted with them and determined to find the King of the Forest. Also abbreviated VG. Not everyone can see the spirits of the forest, only the pure of heart. V is a commonly used abbreviation in reference to the 1993 anime series Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Her father tells her that this is the "King of the Forest". In Windows, Ctrl-V, and Mac OS, Command-V, pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point. Mei names it Totoro. A V engine is an internal combustion engine configuration. Mei discovers a small Totoro, which leads her to find a large forest spirit living in a hollow under a Camphor Laurel by a small jinja. V is the name of a drink produced by Frucor in New Zealand. His daughters discover "soot sprites", which their father rationalizes as makkurokurosuke — an optical illusion seen when moving from light to dark places (glossed as dust bunnies in the 1993 English dub; in the Disney version they are called "Soot Gremlins".). Channell [V] is a music-centric television station operated by STAR TV. A university professor from the city and his two daughters move into an old house near a forest, while his wife recovers from tuberculosis in a nearby convalescence home. v is the name of an album released by the band 76 in 2003. It is set during a summer of the 1950s. V is the name of an album released by the band Live in 2001. The movie is a slow-moving yet fascinating portrayal of Japanese rural life. V is the name of a band from the United Kingdom; see V (band). . the roman numeral V is the dominant scale degree, chord, or diatonic function, when distinguished V = major and v = minor. The DVD release will be 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. In music,
An ani-manga version of My Neighbor Totoro was published in English by Viz Communications starting on November 10, 2004. In literature, Thomas Pynchon's first novel is called V. (including the period). Troma and Fox's rights to this version expired in 2004. In Roman numerals, V denotes the number five (there are also separate Unicode characters for this number, 0x2164 "Ⅴ" and 0x2174 "ⅴ"). It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Home Video. In Canada, V stands for British Columbia. Troma Films produced a 1993 dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. As the first letter of a postal code,
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ - Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. In physics, v is often a variable for speed or velocity. Frank Welker/Hitoshi Takagi/Hitoshi Takagi: Totoro. V is the symbol for volt, the SI derived unit for electric potential. Pat Carroll/Natalie Core/Tanie Kitabayashi: Nanny. In the SI system,
Lea Salonga/Alexandra Kenworthy/Sumi Shimamoto: Mrs. In grammar, v is an abbreviation for verb. Timothy Daly/Steve Kramer/Shigesato Itoi: Professor Kusakabe. ticker symbol for Vivendi Universal. Elle Fanning/Cheryl Chase/Chika Sakamoto: Mei Kusakabe. In finance, V is the U.S. Dakota Fanning/the late Lisa Michelson/Noriko Hidaka: Satsuki Kusakabe. In electrical engineering, V is the symbol for voltage (also known as electric potential, see below). The 2005 World Expo in Japan featured a "Totoro" house which was a recreation of the house in which Satsuki and Mei lived in the movie. See ITU-T recommendations. (TCM aired the dub as well as the original Japanese with English subtitles.). V is an ITU-T series of recommendations on Data communication over the telephone network and used in their names such as V.92. The Turner Classic Movies cable television network held the television premiere of Disney's new English dub on January 19, 2006, as part of the network's January salute to Hayao Miyazaki. V is the name of an operating system developed at Stanford University. The world premiere for the Disney version was on October 23, 2005 after the premiere of Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. V is an operation on a semaphore, used for process synchronisation. The Disney version is slated for DVD release on March 7, 2006, but it appeared in the 2005 Hollywood Film Festival and on television prior to this. In computing,
In the Disney dub, they are referred to as "Soot Gremlins". V is the name given by a mysterious anarchist who fights against a totalitarian government in V for Vendetta. In the word "makkurokurosuke" (used when calling the 'Soot spirits' in the Fox dub), makkurokuro would mean "pitch black black" and "suke" is a common element in boys names. In comics
During the closing credits, Miyazaki purposely inserted art of Satsuki and Mei playing with other human children and not with the Totoros. In fact, Gainax reportedly invited the animator who did the original key animation for Totoro to work on that scene, although they never revealed the animator's name. The character of Totoro made a cameo appearance in one episode of the Gainax TV series Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo (His and Her Circumstances), which was likely director Hideaki Anno's way of paying tribute to Miyazaki (Anno worked as a key animator on Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984 and considers Miyazaki a mentor). In the Japanese version, their father's position in his university is not explicitly given by Satsuki as in the English dub. Satsuki is the old Japanese name for the month of May, and Mei's name comes from the English name. Satsuki and Mei were both born in the month of May. Ken Jennings, the winner of the most games in the history of the TV game show Jeopardy!, carries a small plush "Totoro" figure in his pocket for good luck. Satsuki and Mei's mother's implied suffering from spinal tuberculosis (also known as Pott's disease) is somewhat autobiographical, as Hayao Miyazaki's mother suffered from the same illness. Bake neko are mentioned in several Ghibli films. The Cat Bus is a bake neko that saw a bus and decided to become one. The Cat Bus originates from the Japanese belief that if a cat grows old enough it gains magical shape-changing powers and is called a bake neko. Incidentally, the late Yoshifumi Kondo provided character designs for both films. Another theory is that "Grave of the Fireflies" (directed by Miyazaki's longtime colleague Isao Takahata) was believed to be too depressing for audiences as a stand-alone product, and thus needed a lighter animation to accompany it. My Neighbor Totoro was released as a double feature with Grave of the Fireflies. There are two theories for this: one was that Totoro would not be successful. The main Totoro has become a mascot for Studio Ghibli, gracing the studio's logo at the start of their films. The name Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of "tororu", Japanese for troll, which she saw in a story book (Three Billy Goats Gruff) and decided was the same kind of creature. Catbus or Nekobasu - a cat that has become a bus. "Nanny" - Kanta's grandmother, who sometimes takes care of the girls. Kanta - A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki. Small Totoro (Chibi Totoro) - The white, smallest (about 20 centimeters tall) one, with the power of invisibility. Looks very similar to King Totoro. Medium Totoro (Chū Totoro) - The blue, medium-size (about 60 centimeters tall) one. Ō in that case means "large" but the English dub calls that Totoro "King Totoro". She tried to say "tororu", the Japanese word for troll. Mei has a habit of mispronouncing things. King Totoro (Ō Totoro) - The grey, friendly forest spirit who is the largest of the three (at least 3 meters tall); when someone says "totoro", they are usually referring to him. Totoro - 3 Totoro appear in the film:
Mei Kusakabe - Satsuki's younger sister, pre-school age (4 years old). Satsuki Kusakabe - An 11-year-old girl. |