My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Cautiously Recommended

Japan

Animated Feature Film

Original Title: となりのトトロ

Writer/Director: Miyazaki Hayao

Composer: Hisaishi Jō

Cast: Hidaka Noriko, Sakamoto Chika, Itoi Shigesato, Shimamoto Sumi, Kitabayashi Tanie, Takagi Hitoshi, Maruyama Yūko

Setsuki and Mei, two young sisters who have recently moved with their father to the country to be nearer to their hospitalised mother, discover and make friends with magical, fairy creatures, who live in the neighbouring forest, in Miyazaki’s warm and vaguely charming if decidedly slight animated fantasy. Iain.Stott