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My Neighbor Totoro
1988
· Movie
· 86 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #13
- IMDb #32
- Google retired #48
- Metacritic #21
- Letterboxd #37
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #105
+7 more
- Metacritic Critics #32
- Metacritic Audience #30
- Criticker #6
- Douban #7
- Kinopoisk #24
- AlloCiné #24
- Trakt #28
Every rating
72–98
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 98.
See the most agreed on films →Two young girls move into an old country house with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to magical creatures, including a giant, friendly forest spirit named Totoro, who helps them adjust to their new life.
Details
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Tokuma Shoten
- Released
- 16 April 1988
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $3.7M
- Box office
- $41.0M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →6 wins from 6 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Animage Anime Awards 1989 | Grand Prix prize | Winner | |
| Blue Ribbon Awards 1989 | Special Award | Winner | |
| Kinema Junpo Awards 1989 | Kinema Junpo Award – Best Film | Winner | |
| Kinema Junpo Awards 1989 | Readers' Choice Award – Best Japanese Film | Winner | |
| Mainichi Film Awards 1989 | Best Film | Winner | |
| Mainichi Film Awards 1989 | Ōfuji Noburō Award | Winner |
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Kinema Junpo Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Kinema Junpo Award – Best Film | Winner | |
| Readers' Choice Award – Best Japanese Film | Winner |
Mainichi Film Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Ōfuji Noburō Award | Winner |
Animage Anime Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Grand Prix prize | Winner |
Blue Ribbon Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Special Award | Winner |