![]() Totoro is – and I’d missed this on earlier viewings – strongly implied to be a kami. ![]() Near the house is a large Camphor tree, with an associated shrine, and inside the tree lives Totoro. Tatsuo, the father, is a university professor in Tokyo, and they have two daughters – who are our viewpoint characters – Satsuki (age 10) and Mei (age 4). The premise of the film is that the Kusakabe family is moving to rural Japan, where the mother of the family – Yasuko – is currently in the hospital. The movie, like Totoro themselves, is a big, fluffy, teddy bear. My Neighbor Totor’s strengths are its tremendous naturalism – both in characters & environments, and how very (and this shouldn’t be taken as a negative) non-threatening it is.
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