My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro
Original Title	となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio 1	Quality Sound Studios
Dubbing Studio 2	Buena Vista Sound Studios
Voice Director 1	Carl Macek
Voice Director 2	Rick Dempsey
Translation & Adaptation	Carl Macek Gregory Snegoff (original dub) Cindy Davis Hewitt Donald H. Hewitt (redub)
Recorded	1989 2005
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Year	1988

My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ), is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.

The film was critically acclaimed and has amassed a worldwide cult following in the years after its release. The film and its titular character, Totoro, have become cultural icons.

Dubbing History

In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines. Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film co-produced by Jerry Beck. This dub was released on VHS and LaserDisc in the United States by Fox Video in 1994 and on DVD in 2002. Because of his disappointment with the result of the heavily edited English version of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki would not permit any part of the movie to be edited out, all the names had to remain the same (with the exception being Catbus), the translation had to be as close to the original Japanese as possible, and no part of the movie could be changed for any reason, cultural or linguistic (which was very common at the time) despite creating problems with some English viewers, particularly in explaining the origin of the name "Totoro".

The rights to the original dub expired in 2004 and so, was re-released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on 7 March 2006 with 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.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
			Streamline Dub	Buena Vista Dub
	Satsuki Kusakabe	Noriko Hidaka	Lisa Michelson	Dakota Fanning
	Mei Kusakabe	Chika Sakamoto	Cheryl Chase	Elle Fanning
	Tatsuo Kusakabe	Shigesato Itoi	Gregory Snegoff	Tim Daly
	Yasuko Kusakabe	Sumi Shimamoto	Alexandra Kenworthy	Lea Salonga
	Totoro	Hitoshi Takagi	¿?	Frank Welker
	Kanta Ogaki	Toshiyuki Amagasa	Kenneth Hartman	Paul Butcher
	Granny	Tanie Kitabayashi	Natalie Core	Pat Carroll
	Catbus	Naoki Tatsuta	Carl Macek	Frank Welker
	Michiko	Chie Kōjiro	Brianne Siddall	Ashley Rose Orr
	Mrs. Ogaki	Hiroko Maruyama	Melanie MacQueen	Kath Soucie
	Mr. Ogaki	Masashi Hirose	Steve Kramer	David Midthunder
	Old Farmer	Shigeru Chiba		Peter Renaday
	Miss Hara	Machiko Washio	Edie Mirman	Tress MacNeille
	Kanta's Aunt	Reiko Suzuki		Russi Taylor
	Otoko	Daiki Nakamura	Kerrigan Mahan	Matt Adler
	Ryouko	Yūko Mizutani	Lara Cody	Bridget Hoffman

Additional Voices

Streamline Dub Lara Cody - Bus Attendant Kerrigan Mahan - Searcher 2 Gregory Snegoff Doug Stone - Searcher 1, Mailman

Buena Vista Dub Newell Alexander Robert Clotworthy Kimberly Guerrero Kristin Klabunde J.P. Manoux Zahn McClarnon Toochis Morin Katelin Petersen Yvonne Russo Evan Sabara

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Dub	Region	Country
20th Century Fox	1994		Streamline	NTSC	United States
	1995
	2002
				1 NTSC
Buena Vista Home Entertainment	2006		Disney
Optimum Releasing				2 PAL	United Kingdom
Buena Vista Home Entertainment	2010			1 NTSC	United States
Optimum Releasing	2012			B DVB-T	United Kingdom
Buena Vista Home Entertainment	2013			A DVB-T	United States
GKIDS	2017			1 NTSC
				A DVB-T

External Links

• My Neighbor Totoro (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• My Neighbor Totoro at the Internet Movie Database