My Neighbour Totoro

[The Groke]

I pity you and your cold dead heart.

Lawyer innit.

 

[Sadken]

No, seriously, compared to Naussica, Mononoke or something like Spirited Away, this film is like Chinese water torture in a day glo painted room for me. I love the nekobus/catbus and I like the way Totoro looks but I find the film itself suffocatingly twee.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

it does have much more of an appeal to children in that it calls to the belife that there could be magical places in your garden

it also embodies a certian japanese nostalgia for the simple life

 

[The Groke]

it does have much more of an appeal to children in that it calls to the belife that there could be magical places in your garden

I think the older I get, the more I need that belief.

 

[The Groke]

suffocatingly twee.

You see, I am generally afflicted with lashings of The Cynical, but for me it manages to be simple, sweet and utterly charming without ever straying into the twee-zone.

It perfectly captures the behavior, mannerisms and innocence of two young girls and evokes powerful memories of childhood in me (despite the fact that I have never actually been a 4 year old Japanese girl.)

 

[The Groke]

Also:

Catbus FFS.

 

[Augie March]

My Neighbour Zalgoro.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

It perfectly captures the behavior, mannerisms and innocence of two young girls and evokes powerful memories of childhood in me (despite the fact that I have never actually been a 4 year old Japanese girl.)

i found a lot of this stuff echos a past people never had, a golden age of small town living and innocent fun see also kiki's delivery service and well just about all of the others

i gre up in brixton in the 80's watching telly all the time because last time i played with other kids the poured hair remover over me... so i don't get the childhood memories bit even if i'm named like a 4 year old japanese girl

however i apreciate the feeling it gives off

it's not my favorite miyazaki or ghbli film though

miyazaki would be the lupin movie and i think for ghibli either spirited away or the yamadas

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

My Neighbour Zalgoro.

i think i have that manga (sorry)

 

[fen_boy]

i gre up in brixton in the 80's watching telly all the time because last time i played with other kids the poured hair remover over me... so i don't get the childhood memories bit even if i'm named like a 4 year old japanese girl

That's really shit kids can be cruel.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

well it wasn't as bad as the time i had a cig put out on my arm... or the time i was set alight

i didn't have a lot of freinds

 

[fen_boy]

well it wasn't as bad as the time i had a cig put out on my arm... or the time i was set alight

i didn't have a lot of freinds

bullies are cunts

 

[moonsi til]

^^^ correct...

On a happier note I have just bought Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro for my BFs 8 (soon to be 9) sons birthday. I'm hoping it will be magical for him. We watch a lot of varied films together and I'm excited about giving him these....

 

[Elpenor]

It’s on rerelease at the moment.

Might go at the weekend, I’m not sure am feeling up to my original plans.