The plot is never the point... it's a series of nostalgic childhood images... with the interplay between nature and humanity, and nature and the modern world.

This inspirationally lovely and gentle film has a real claim to be Miyazaki’s masterpiece, or first among equals in his collection.

There’s still nothing quite like Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro...

The film's very circumspection casts an ominous shade on the sunny story. Everything has to be arranged just so, each panel drawn with love, to conceal the face of grief.