My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro, Mi vecino Totoro, Mon voisin Totoro, 龍貓, Мой сосед Тоторо
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ Tonari no Totoro), is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1988. This movie was originally released in the U.S. in VHS format with the title, My Friend Totoro.
In 1958, a university professor and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house in rural Japan, so as to be closer to the hospital where his wife is recovering from an illness. The daughters find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called soot sprites, which their father explains are makkurokurosuke — small house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. (These creatures are referred to as "dust bunnies" and "soot spirits" in the 1993 English dub; in the Disney version, they are variously called "soot gremlins" or "soot sprites". In the English subtitles of the first Japanese-language version to find its way to America, they were "Black Soots". The original name, "makkurokurosuke", literally means "pitch-black blackie". When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house.
(Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, s.v. "My Neighbor Totoro")
