Japanese Zippo Lighter-My Neighbor TOTORO STUDIO GHIBLI

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Japanese ZIPPO Lighter My Neighbor TOTORO STUDIO GHIBLI Hayao Miyazaki 1988LIMITED Serial No.10755 This item is the100% AUTHENTIC ZIPPO Lighter. My Neighbor Totoro From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonari no TotoroMy Neighbor Totoro Japanese theatrical release poster Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Produced by Toru Hara Written by Hayao Miyazaki Starring Chika Sakamoto Noriko Hidaka Hitoshi Takagi Music by Joe Hisaishi Cinematography Hisao Shirai Editing by Takeshi Seyama Distributed by Toho Troma Films Walt Disney Pictures Release date(s) Japan :April 16, 1988 United States :May 7, 1993 Running time 86 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese My Neighbor Totoro ( となりのトトロ Tonari no Totoro ?) , is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli . The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.The film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Tokuma Japan Communications ' US subsidiary in 1993 with the title, My Friend Totoro .[ 1] Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for Japan Airlines ' transpacific flights in 1988. Troma Films , under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck . It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Video . Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in 2004. The film was re-released by Disney on March 7, 2006. [2 ] It features a new dub cast. This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version. Contents [ hide ]1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 5 Critical reception 6 Cultural impact 7 Media 7.1 Books 7.2 Anime short 7.3 Soundtrack 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Plot Satsuki and Mei's house ( ja:サツキとメイの家 ) at the Expo 2005 site Closeup view of Satsuki and Mei's house In 1958, the Kusakabe family reunites when a university professor and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei (approximately ten and four years old, respectively) move into an old house in rural Japan to be closer to the hospital where their mother is recovering from an unnamed, long-term illness. The daughters find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called susuwatari — small house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits (identified as "black soots" in early subtitles and "soot sprites" in the later English dubbed version) leave the house to drift away on the wind.While she is playing outside one day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass. She follows the ears under the house where she discovers two small magical creatures, who lead her through a briar patch, and into the hollow of a large Camphor tree . She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars she interprets as "Totoro" (in the original Japanese dub, it stems from Mei's mispronunciation of the word for "troll"). [3 ] Her father later tells her that this is the "keeper of the forest".One rainy night, the girls are waiting for their father's bus and grow worried when he does not arrive on the bus they expect him on. As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. He only has a leaf on his head for protection against the rain, so Satsuki offers him the umbrella she had taken along for her father. Totoro is delighted at both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops. In return, he gives her a bundle of nuts and seeds . A bus-shaped giant cat halts at the stop, and Totoro boards it, taking the umbrella. Shor... read more

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