He is seen working at a desk while Mei plays outside and spending time with his daughters before their bedtime. Although their father is often away working at the university or visiting their mother in the hospital, he is by no means an absentee father. Also, the various cleaning and garden tasks that Satsuki and Mei often had the help of Nanny to complete would have also normally been the main responsibility of the mother to complete. This is a task that would normally fall to the mother.

One such illustration is when Satsuki prepares breakfast and lunch for her father and Mei before she leaves for school. This is illustrated several times throughout the movie. One of the most significant things to point out in My Neighbor Totoro is that the mother is absent from the home. The movie ends with the girls delivering an ear of corn to their mother. When Mei leaves in her attempt to save her hospitalized mother, she and Satsuki take a ride on the cat-bus.

Satsuki, Mei and their father live in the field, where Mei discovers a giant creature living in the forest near the house. Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in The movie was re-released by Disney on March 7, This DVD release is the first version of the movie 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. Films banner, produced a dub of the movie co-produced by Jerry Beck. It won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in Troma Filmsunder their 50th St.

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