We end our season of the best of Japanese cinema with Miyazaki’s classic animated fantasy MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO!

Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalised mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called. They soon befriend these Totoro, and have several magical adventures.

Described in Little White Lies as “perfect. Simple as.”

In original Japanese with English subtitles