My Neighbour Totoro - film review

Hayao Miyazaki's charming children's adventure is not as complex or tense as Spirited Away but few things are
24 May 2013

You haven't lived if you're unfamiliar with "the cat bus", a magical vehicle that appears in Hayao Miyazaki's charming children's adventure, also released in 1988 (the door opens with the eeriest of pings and the seats are covered in fur).

Two boisterous sisters, Satsuki and Mei, move to the countryside with their dad and await the arrival of their mother, who’s stuck in hospital with a mysterious disease. One day, Mei crawls through a tunnel of leaves and tumbles on to the stomach of a creature whose roars make her hair stand on end. She roars back and the friendship is sealed. Not as complex or tense as Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, released 13 years later). Still, few things are.

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