My Neighbor Totoro

1988 | 1h 26m When two young girls move to the country to stay with their sick mother, they meet the magical spirits who live in the nearby forest. The film is partially autobiographical. When Hayao Miyazaki and his brothers were children, his mother suffered from spinal tuberculosis for nine years and spent much of her time hospitalized. He once said the movie would have been too painful for him to make if the two protagonists were boys instead of girls.

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Just in time for Studio Ghibli’s 35th birthday, we’ve compiled this list of the studio’s best anime films. Spoiler: it’s not all about Miyazaki

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