Some days ago, I remembered that my sister and I liked a film called “My Neighbor Totoro” and that ten years ago we saw it lots of times. I couldn’t remember the plot so I decided to watch it again.
The film tells the history of a father and his two daughters who move to a new rural house in Japan because they want to be near the hospital where their mother is admitted because of an unnamed illness. The daughters find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called “black soots”. When the family become comfortable in the house and start enjoying their life there, the soots leave the house.One day, Mei (the smaller daughter) is playing in the garden when she sees two white ears in the grass. She starts to follow the ears under the house and she discovers two small magical creatures. They start to run and Mei follows them across a path in the forest. There, she meets a giant creature and call him Totoro. She falls asleep there with Totoro. Then, the father and Satsuki (the bigger daughter) find Mei sleeping alone in the forest. When she tells them about Totoro her father tells her that he is the keeper of the forest.
A rainy day, Satsuki and Mei decide to go to the bus stop to wait for his father with his umbrella. While they are waiting there, Totoro appears and gives the girls a bundle of nuts and seeds. Then, a bus which seems like a cat arrives at the bus stop and Totoro takes it.
One night, the girls are sleeping when a strange noise wakes up Satsuki. She discovers that Totoro and the other two creatures are dancing around the piece of garden where they had planted the seeds. Then, Mei and Satsuki go there and start making the dance with them. The result is that from the seeds, it starts to grow up a giant tree. The sisters pass the night with Totoro. The following day, the tree has disappeared but the seeds have started to grow.
The daughters are looking forward to seeing their mother because she is going to pass the next weekend at home with them, because she is feeling better but, when the weekend is arriving, the mother gets worse so the doctor don’t let her go home. Mei gets angry and when no one is looking after her, she starts to run towards the hospital but she gets lost. The family and the neighborhood try to find her but, after a lot of time with no results, Satsuki decides to tell Totoro about what had happened. Then, Totoro calls the catbus which takes Satsuki where Mei is and, after that, it takes them to the hospital to visit their mother. There, they discover that her mother is better and that she is going to visit them home the next weekend.
