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My Neighbor Totoro(1988)
Released
1988 · FILM

My Neighbor Totoro

A widowed professor and his two young daughters move to a rural Japanese home where they encounter mysterious forest spirits, leading the curious younger child on an enchanting quest to befriend a colossal, gentle creature that could change their lives forever.

“He's your friendly neighbourhood forest spirit!”

Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki, Siddhesh Dalvi
Written by
Hayao Miyazaki
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
86 min
Language
JA
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Two sisters move to the countryside with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother and discover that the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical forest spirits. When the youngest sister runs away from home, the older sister turns to the spirits for help in finding her.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 246+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kazutoshi SatoShot by Hisao ShiraiScored by Joe HisaishiSound by Tom E Dahl

Box Office

1988 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$41.0M

Budget$3.7M
Worldwide gross$41.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2019767 theaters
$1.6M($2.1M today)
2018718 theaters
$1.7M($2.2M today)
Total re-release
$3.3M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Mein Nachbar Totorode
  • Tonari no Totorode
  • My Neighbor Totoroen
  • My Neighbour Totoroen
  • Mi vecino Totoroes
  • Mon voisin Totorofr
  • Il mio vicino Totoroit
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • JapanApr 16, 1988
  • Hong Kong SAR ChinaJul 15, 1988
  • ItalyApr 3, 1989
  • United KingdomNov 17, 1989

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Studio GhibliNibarikiTokuma Japan Communications
Distributors
50th Street FilmsArthausCinema MondoElysian Film Group DistributionFathom Events
Other companiesTroma Entertainment, Wild Bunch Distribution, Animation City, Anime Torotoro, Atelier BWCA, Buena Vista Imaging, Buena Vista Negative Cutting

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