Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Released: 1988
Starring: Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi

My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of the two young daughters, Satsuki and Mei, 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 and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year.