My Neighbor Totoro

[ellen_datlow]

Just finished watching it and it's really lovely. Utterly charming and quite moving with the underlying worry throughout (for those who haven't seen in, I won't go into detail).
I'm glad I finally got to see it. So are there any sequels to it?

Comments

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

Agree with the Miyazaki/Ghibli films that everyone else has been recommending.

Also take a look at Porco Rosso. Hemingway-esque Lost Generation stuff around the Mediterranean, but played for comedy rather than tragedy. Oh, yeah, and the hero's an anthropomorphic pig. Who's an aviator.

Also: Pom Poko. Screwball ecological comedy with tanuki. And scrotums. Lots of scrotums.

Also, if you can find it: Only Yesterday (Omoide Poro Poro). Realist story about love and loneliness, city and country, and the power of childhood memories. Lovely teary ending. Apparently available in Canada, but has not yet been released in the US.