My Neighbor Totoro is a very popular
children movie though the household of Japan. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki one of
Japan’s adored animators. The Story centers on two young sisters Satsuki, and
Mei they move into a rural area in Japan where there father is a professor
there and their mother who is recovering for an unknown illness in a hospital
near their new home. It is there at the new house where the girls discover a
new environment, a mystical forest which is occupied with mystical creatures
called Totoro’s. The story “My Neighbor Totoro” can teach young children different
types of values of life.
Satsuki was very respectful when
they first meet the Granny. Satsuki intrudes herself unlike her sister. The
young little boy that lives in the same village gives them his umbrella while
it’s pouring raining and he runs home in the rain. Once Satsuki and Mei get
home they take the umbrella back to the young boy’s house and she gives it to
his mother and she thanks his mother and runs off.
Though
out the whole movie Satsuki shows how much she loves her sister mother and
father. Midpoint of the movie Satsuki and Mei receive a massage from the
hospital saying there mother will not be able to come home for the weekend. Mei
takes of running with a homegrown corn that the granny gave her just before
they received the bad news. She thinks that if she takes the corn to her mother
that she will get better. But all that ends up happing is she gets lost in the
rural city of Japan. Once her older sister finds out she is missing she is terrified
about the where her sister is. She has no other place to go but to the mystical
forest and asks help from the Totoros’s. Over all My Neighbor Totoro is a very good movie for young children to
watch.
