My Neighbor Totoro

Set in the Japanese countryside sometime after WWII, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO offers a tale of two sisters and their relationship with a family of forest sprites known as totoros, magical, cuddly creatures seen only by children. An ideal animated film for young children, it has also found favor among adults who appreciate its unusually gentle, painterly style of animation, a trademark of the film's director, Japan's most renowned animator, Hayao Miyazaki.

Two sisters, 10-year-old Satsuki and five-year-old Mei, have just moved to a country house with their father, an anthropology professor, while their mother recuperates from an undisclosed illness in a nearby ho...