{"id":9757,"date":"2015-01-19T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9757"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T19:18:39","slug":"my-neighbor-totoro-1988-hayao-miyazaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9757","title":{"rendered":"My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We watched this the same week as Princess Mononoke<\/a><\/em>, and not long after Princess Kaguya<\/a><\/em>, and it suffered by comparison. Also suffered by expectation, since it’s possibly the most beloved Studio Ghibli movie, providing the company their mascot. Surely it’s a good, enjoyable movie, but it’s simpler, more oriented towards kids. Gives a Coraline<\/a><\/em> vibe, as kids move into a new house and find magic within. Coraline wanted everything to be more wonderful and centered around her, but these girls have real problems – mom in hospital with tuberculosis (see also: The Wind Rises<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

The girls are excited about their new house, especially when the younger one crawls into a tree grove and discovers a Totoro (like a giant raccoon-bear that can fly on a spinning top and create massive temporary trees).<\/p>\n

Then Totoro eats them.<\/p>\n

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No he doesn’t. An elderly neighbor tells them about the soot sprites (black dust balls with eyeballs) in the attic and the girls eventually meet the neighbor’s grandson, a silent, socially awkward boy. Gradually things get more real as we learn that their transplant to the country was prompted by a sick mom, and the youngest girl wanders off to visit her, but gets lost, prompting a search party and leading the older girl to seek out Totoro’s help.<\/p>\n

Totoro summons the greatest thing in the history of movies: the catbus.<\/p>\n

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Then it eats them.<\/p>\n

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No it doesn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We watched this the same week as Princess Mononoke, and not long after Princess Kaguya, and it suffered by comparison. Also suffered by expectation, since it’s possibly the most beloved Studio Ghibli movie, providing the company their mascot. Surely it’s a good, enjoyable movie, but it’s simpler, more oriented towards kids. Gives a Coraline vibe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,96,1587,36,1912],"class_list":["post-9757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-animation","tag-hayao-miyazaki","tag-japan","tag-studio-ghibli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}