My Neighbor Totoro
“He's your friendly neighbourhood forest spirit!”
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Genres
Fantasy, Animation, Family
Studio
Studio Ghibli
Language
ja
Status
Released
How My Neighbor Totoro performed
Budget
$3.7M
Worldwide Gross
$41.0M
Gross Profit
$37.3M
Return
11.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~32/68, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Fantasy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)
Noriko Hidaka
Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)
Mei Kusakabe (voice)
Chika Sakamoto
Mei Kusakabe (voice)
Totoro (voice)
Hitoshi Takagi
Totoro (voice)
Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)
Shigesato Itoi
Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)
Yasuko Kusakabe (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto
Yasuko Kusakabe (voice)
Granny (voice)
Tanie Kitabayashi
Granny (voice)
Kanta Ogaki (voice)
Toshiyuki Amagasa
Kanta Ogaki (voice)
Kanta's Mother (voice)
Yuko Maruyama
Kanta's Mother (voice)
Kanta's Father (voice)
Masashi Hirose
Kanta's Father (voice)
Kanta's Aunt (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Kanta's Aunt (voice)
Teacher (voice)
Machiko Washio
Teacher (voice)
Catbus (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Catbus (voice)
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