Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- mother
- sibling relationship
- village
- leave
- rural area
- hospital
- new neighbor
- new home
- super power
- magical creature
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Noriko Hidaka
Satsuki Kusakabe (voice)
Chika Sakamoto
Mei Kusakabe (voice)
Hitoshi Takagi
Totoro (voice)
Shigesato Itoi
Tatsuo Kusakabe (voice)
- Sumi Shimamoto — Yasuko Kusakabe (voice)
- Tanie Kitabayashi — Granny (voice)
- Toshiyuki Amagasa — Kanta Ogaki (voice)
- Yuko Maruyama — Kanta's Mother (voice)
- Masashi Hirose — Kanta's Father (voice)
- Reiko Suzuki — Kanta's Aunt (voice)
- Machiko Washio — Teacher (voice)
- Naoki Tatsuta — Catbus (voice)
- Tomohiro Nishimura — Postman (voice)
- Chie Koujiro — Michiko (voice)
- Yuko Mizutani — Ryoko (voice)
- Directed
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Written
- Hayao Miyazaki
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 9,046 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Nibariki, Tokuma Shoten
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
