![]() ![]() ![]() Miyazaki had planned to call the film The Ghost Beside Me-a phrase that perfectly captures the fleeting, uncanny nature of its namesake, a gray, rotund forest spirit that slowly sidles up to the school-aged Kusakabe sisters, Satsuki and Mei. The film is set in a lovingly realized recreation of the rural city of Tokorozawa, where Miyazaki lived with his wife in the 1960s-but the mind’s-eye image that inspired the filmmaker is something more mysterious: a young girl waiting for a bus in the rain, looking out of the corner of her eye and realizing she is not alone. ![]() Before 1988, Hayao Miyazaki had typically imagined fantastic worlds, but My Neighbor Totoro-which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, having recently been canonized as the highest-ranking animated title on Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll of the best films of all time-was conceived in a semi-autobiographical vein. ![]()
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