In November 2014, Miyazaki received an honorary Academy Award® at the academy’s sixth annual Governor’s Awards. His final film, The Wind Rises, was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award®. This is one of the lovingly hand-crafted works of Hayao Miyazaki, often called the greatest of the Japanese animators, although his colleague at the Ghibli Studios, Isao Takahata, may be his equal.Remarkable that Totoro and Takahatas Grave of the Fireflies, now both in my Great Movies selection, were released on the same double bill in 1988. Miyazaki’s essays, interviews and memoirs have been collected in Starting Point: 1979–1996 and Turning Point: 1997–2008. The father can be a little absent minded, but he has such a good heart and is a kind person who loves his two daughters. His other acclaimed films include My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Ponyo. In 2005, VIFF awarded Miyazaki the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) received the Osella Award for technical achievement at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival. are his other nine big pictures, including Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Castle in the Sky (1986), Warriors of the Wind (1984), and The Castle. Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. In 1985, Miyazaki cofounded Studio Ghibli, through which he directed the box office smashes Princess Mononoke (1997) and Spirited Away (2001), which won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003. Princess Mononoke (1999) outperformed Titanic in Japan, while Spirited Away (2002) outperformed Princess Mononoke in July 2001 at the box office. My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. His film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga, was released in 1984. His first feature, The Castle of Cagliostro, was released in 1979. Need the perfect gift for your Totoro obsessed pal? Look no further than our Garden Wrap Ring, our Figural Backpack, or our Soot Sprites Scrunchie Set.Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s most beloved animation directors. Looking for a little something to subtly shout your love for your fave anime? Check out our Catbus 3-inch button, our Fuzzy Totoro with Leaf Mini Plush, or our Tree Journal. Meet Hot Topic’s My Neighbor Totoro collection, complete with the must-have merchandise every Totoro anime fan needs in their life.įrom cute t-shirts and cozy socks to useful pencil sets and adorable satchels, we’ve got everything you could ever want from a My Neighbor Totoro collection.
If you-like Mei and Satsuki-are low-key obsessed with this giant, haunted pal, then you’re absolutely, 100%, without a doubt in the right place. What’s not to love, right? Massive, cuddly, playful, totally haunted-how could you ever get enough of the whiskered, monstrous, forest neighbor? We’re totally on-board-especially when it comes to My Neighbor Totoro. In one scene in the film, Mei, Satsuki, and their father are seen bathing. It is the story of a father and his two young daughters moving to the country and adventures the two girls, Mei and Satsuki, have with the forest spirits they find there. My Neighbor Totoro is one of those rare films that both children and adults. Studio Ghibli obsessed? We don’t blame you. My Neighbor Totoro is a deceptively simple tale. My Neighbor Totoro Hats, Gifts, Merchandise, Shirts, Plushes, Hoodies, and Backpacks Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir