My Neighbor Totoro

Sisters Satsuki and Mei move to the countryside near the hospital where their mother is recovering from illness. While exploring their new home the girls encounter Totoro — a large gentle woodland spirit who can only be seen by children — and other magical creatures of rural Japan. There is no villain in My Neighbor Totoro no antagonist to overcome — just the ordinary anxieties of childhood held with extraordinary warmth and a visual language of wonder that makes the world feel fundamentally safe even in its strangeness. Miyazaki’s most healing and most purely joyful film.