Noriko Hidaka
Satsuki
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Cast
- Elle FanningMei Kusakabe
- Chika SakamotoMei
- Cheryl Chase (actress)Mei
- Dakota FanningSatsuki
- Tim DalyProfessor Kusakabe
- Shigesato ItoiTatsuo Kusakabe (Satsuki & Mei's Father)
- Lea SalongaMrs. Kusakabe
- Frank WelkerTotoro
- Gaye KrugerMother
Sumi ShimamotoYasuko Kusakabe (Satsuki & Mei's Mother)- Paul Butcher (actor)Kanta
- Naoki TatsutaCat Bus
- Tanie KitabayashiGranny
All My Neighbor Totoro characters are listed here. Catbus (species) Category:Catbuses. Granny's farm animals. Kanta Ōgaki. Kanta's Father. Kanta's Mother. Kodama. Mailman. Mei Kusakabe. Michiko. Miss Hara. Ryōko. Satsuki Kusakabe. Smaller Totoros. Susuwatari. Tatsuo Kusakabe. Totoro. Tractor Driver. Unnamed Characters (My Neighbor Totoro)
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"This strange creature is still in Japan. Maybe."(このへんな生きものは まだ日本にいるのです。たぶん。)"Pure feelings forever."(純粋な気持ちいつまでも。)The Village in May
Taking place in 1950s Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei are moving into an old house in the country to be closer to the hospital where their mother Yasuko is recovering from a long-term illness. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called Soot Sprites- small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. While the girls can see them, their father can't, however an elderly w...
A Haunted House!
Soon they go to the hospital to visit their mom who is improving, the doctors say that she should be able to come home in 2 weeks. The next day, Satsuki starts class at her new school with Mitchiko her new friend. While Tatsuo grades papers at home Mei goes off exploring, soon she sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house. She discovers two small magical creatures who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. She meets...
Let's Go to the Hospital
One day, Satsuki leaves Mei with Kanta's parents and Granny for the day, however towards the end of the day, Granny and Mei are outside the school house. As it turns out, Mei had been crying and wouldn't stop until she saw Satsuki, she tells Mei she has to stay with Granny since their father is teaching at the University and she has school. Despite her assurance, Mei wants to stay with her sister, so after talking to her teacher, Mei is welcome to stay and is giving some crayons and paper, Sa...
1. Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Lisa Michelson (Streamline), Dakota Fanning(Disney) 2. The eldest daughter of the Kusakabe family. She wears a pale yellow sleeveless dress. Miyazaki originally planned for her to be 10-year-old fourth grader, but was changed to a 12-year-old sixth grader.
Despite the film's original proposal stating it was set in 30th year of the Shōwa era (1952 and 1958 in calendar dates), Miyazaki stated that he 'had no specific era in mind', and that "...it's actually a lie to say it was set in the latter 1950's; the truth is that it is a story set in a time before television. At first I thought of having the rad...
Development
My Neighbor Totoro began life in the 1970s while Hayao Miyazaki was working at Telecom Animation. He drew early image boards of 5-year-old girl who had a similar design to Mei, but the personality of Satsuki. Totoro was originally intended to be published as a children's picture book, but as proposals for the film slowly developed, the main character was changed to be two sisters. In the meantime, early concept the original protagonist was later used in various media such as the cover for the...
The very young Studio Ghibli, then two years old, thus found itself managing and producing two films with seemingly no real commercial appeal at the same time, over a record period of only one year. Two possibilities were then considered: turning over the films in two six-month periods or dividing the studio in two and making the films jointly. The...
After writing and filming Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Castle in the Sky (1986), Hayao Miyazaki began directing My Neighbor Totoro for Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki's production paralleled his colleague Isao Takahata's production of Grave of the Fireflies. Miyazaki's film was financed by executive producer Yasuyoshi Tokuma, and both My N...
Tourism Impact
Due to the massive success of My Neighbor Totoro, locations set or inspired by the film became popular tourist spots. Totoro Bus Stop at Oita Prefecture, Saiki, Ume Road Station 1. The Totoro bus stop is located here at the Saeki-Mokpo route. In 1992, a mother placed a Catbus, Totoro doll, and a handwritten panel at the stop. As time went on, more and more people left their figures and notes in the bus stop, and this phenomenon was even reported on local newspapers in the 2000s.The area has s...
My Neighbor Totoro Soundtrack Collection (となりのトトロ サウンドトラック集) is the official soundtrack album produced by Wonder City and released by Animage Recordson May 1, 1988. It was re-released on November 21, 1996, and August 25, 2004. The score was composed by Joe Hisaishi and arranged by Yayoi Hirabe and Masahisa Takeichi. The theme song's lyrics were pro...
My Neighbor Totorohas a stage adaptation. Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company in the United Kingdom are working on the adaptation and will open at London’s Barbican arts complex this fall in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. It is written by playwright Tom Morton-Smith and directed by Phelim McDermott and has puppetry created ...
- Yoshiharu Satō
- Hisao Shirai
- Kazuo Oga
- Hayao Miyazaki
As is the case with Disney's other English dubs of Miyazaki films, the Disney version of My Neighbor Totoro has a star-heavy cast, including Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei, Timothy Daly as Mr. Kusakabe, Pat Carroll as Granny, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe, and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus.
- $41 million
- April 16, 1988
- Toru Hara
- Joe Hisaishi
My Neighbor Totoro; Characters; Kusakabe Family: Tatsuo | Yasuko | Satsuki | Mei: Sayama Hills Residents: Granny | Kanta Ōgaki | Kanta's Father | Kanta's Mother | Mailman | Michiko | Miss Hara | Mover | Otoko | Ryōko: Totoros and Other Animals: Totoro | Mini Totoro | Catbus | Susuwatari | Granny's farm animals
Below are characters from the film My Neighbor Totoro . Catbus. Granny. Jeff. Kanta Okagi. Kittenbus. Mei Kusakabe. File:Mei under.jpg. Michiko. Nausicaa. Satsuki Kusakabe. Susuwatari (Sootsprites) Tatsuo Kusakabe. Totoro. Yasuko. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
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Catbus is an elusive character who can find his way anywhere and morph his shape. This wiki is based on My Neighbor Totoro, the 1988 animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. My Neighbor Totoro is a fantasy film telling the tale of two young girls called Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe.
In-Between Animation. Characters, voice actors, producers and directors from the anime Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) on MyAnimeList, the internet's largest anime database. In 1950s Japan, Tatsuo Kusakabe relocates himself and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, to the countryside to be closer to their mother, who is hospitalized due to ...
