Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)

Reviews

Roger Ebert's review for his "Great Movies" section.

totoro.reviews

Contains two personal reviews, six US newspaper reviews, one magazine review, and a review by popular film critics Siskel & Ebert.

The contributing people and publications were:

• Steven Feldman (Miyazaki mailing list founder)
• The Los Angeles Times - May 7, 1993 - by Charles Solomon
• Newsday - May 14, 1993 - by Joseph Gelmis
• The New York Daily News - sometime between May 13 and May 15, 1993 - by "the Phantom of the Movies"
• The New York Times - May 14, 1993 - by Stephen Holden
• rec.arts.movies.reviews - May 18, 1993 - by Robert Plamondon
• The San Francisco Chronicle - May 8, 1993 - by Peter Stack
• The San Jose Mercury - May 10, 1993 - by Bob Strauss
• Siskel & Ebert: At The Movies [TV program] - May 9, 1993 - by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
• Variety magazine - May 10, 1993 - by Leonard Klady

totoro.reviews2

Contains nine more reviews of Fox Video's release of Totoro in the United States.

The contributing publications were:

• The Hollywood Reporter - Feb 1, 1993 - by James Ulmer
• The Hollywood Reporter - Apr 8, 1993 - by Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn
• The Hollywood Reporter - Apr 29, 1993 - by David Hunter
• Daily Variety - May 6, 1993 - by Leonard Klady
• The Seattle Times - May 6, 1993 - by John Hartl
• The Seattle Times - May 15, 1993 - by Malika Bennett, age 12
• The Los Angeles Times - May 20, 1993 - by Lynn Smith
• Billboard, Aug 20, 1994 - by Trudi Miller Rosenblum
• Cineman Video Reviews - Mar 11, 1996 - by (unknown)

totoro.mentions

Contains six incidental references to Totoro in longer articles.

The file includes articles from:

• The Los Angeles Times - Aug 5, 1994 - by Dennis Hunt
• USA Today - Aug 8, 1994 - by Arlene Vigoda, Robin DeRosa, Karen Thomas, Deirdre Donahue, and Erik Brady
• The Washington Post, Oct 12, 1994 - by Don Oldenburg, C.J. Houtchens, Richard Harrington, and John F. Kelly
• Billboard, Jan 7, 1995 - by Moira McCormick
• The Hollywood Reporter, Mar 21, 1995 - by (unknown)
• The Washington Post, Nov 29, 1995 - by C.J. Houtchens
• The Washington Post, Mar 29, 1995 - by (unknown)

Press information / advertising

totoro.presskit

Contains promotional information provided by Troma Pictures for use by theaters and the press when advertising and critiquing the theatrical release of Totoro in the United States. WARNING: text in this file is transcribed exactly as printed, including many spelling and grammatical errors.

The file includes:

• text and description of a two-sided advertising slick
• a mini movie-reivew sheet from Tokuma and 50th Street Films
• a press release from Yasuyoshi TOKUMA, Executive Producer
• a press release from 50th Street Films/Troma, Inc., US Distributor
• a short biography of Hayao MIYAZAKI, Director
• another (long) press release about Tokuma and Troma
• motion picture credits, for the English and Japanese versions
• descriptions of four glossy pictures included in the presskit

Discussion threads

totoro.douwa

A short file explaining the concept of douwa, and how the author Miho NISHIDA's parents reacted with nostalgia to their first viewing of Totoro.

totoro.names

A very short file containing an exerpt from an email conversation about how the names "Mei" and "Satsuki" are puns on the fifth month of the year.