Studio Ghibli has produced more beloved anime films than virtually any other production company. Naturally, this means that clothing, apparel, and assorted other merchandise based on My Neighbor ...

But Totoro is a film that features sparse dialogue ... which includes chickens and a cohort of mischievous soot sprites that occupy the family’s rickety new home — the team came up with ...

While they’re living there, they connect with the idyllic rural landscape – and the spirits that animate it, from Totoro and his coterie of mini-me friends to soot sprites and even a massive cat in ...

“Totoro” is not, unlike Broadway’s miserable ... We learn that the clan’s new dwelling is haunted. Stringy black soot sprites (in Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away,” too), puppeteered ...

These sprites are iconic Studio Ghibli characters, appearing in the films My Neighbor Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. What follows is an impressionistic, kinetic dance between Grogu ...

The expo organizers loved the idea. Maybe you could put a Totoro in the house, they said. Or some of those cute little soot sprites. No! Suzuki said. (In our interview, he actually yelled this ...

Similar to fairies, nymphs or sprites from Western mythology – rather than ghosts or demons – yokai are not inherently evil or dangerous, although different types can prove more malevolent or ...

An adaptation of “My Neighbour Totoro” enchants audiences at the ... discover any number of creatures — including “soot sprites” resembling dancing particles of dust — that the adults ...

Exploring the magical fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination, My Neighbour Totoro follows one ... forgotten realm of spirits, sprites, and natural wonder.