My Neighbor Totoro

Subjectivized Nature, Non-Narrative Cinema and Fresh Vegetables

Welcome to our third installment. This time we analyze "My Neighbour Totoro", directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Your hosts this podcast are: Darkonius, PlatonSkull, Xiff, Hipster_Cthulhu and Nyard.

Referenced images

Catbus Sakuga:

https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/18252

Mei no pantsu: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rdkg770xGS_u_4V5Gbu_RY_nIjGJiHvK/view?usp=sharing

Sources:

Susan Napier - "Miyazakiworld"

Terry Gilliams Top 50 Animated Movies https://web.archive.org/web/20091009204022/

http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8835/

Roger Ebert Review

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-my-neighbor-totoro-1993

Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro By Phillip E. Wegner http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_2/wegner/

The Scary Theory That Totoro Is The God of Death

https://kotaku.com/the-scary-theory-that-totoro-is-the-god-of-death-5926248

Towards a True Children’s Cinema: on ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ by Lauren Wilford

https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/towards-a-true-childrens-cinema-on-my-neighbor-totoro/