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Kanta Ōgaki ( 大垣寛太, Ōgaki Kanta) A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki.
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO TREE MOVIE
These names do not appear in the movie itself, but are used in ancillary materials. There are two similar, smaller creatures in the movie, also referred to as totoro the big grey Totoro is named "Ō-Totoro", or "Miminzuku", the middle is "Chū-Totoro", or "Zuku", and the smallest is " Chibi-Totoro", or "Mini". Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of torōru, the Japanese pronunciation of troll as a loanword.
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Totoro ( トトロ) A grey and white, friendly forest spirit, whose appearance is a combination of an owl, a cat, and a tanuki and is at least three meters tall. When Miyazaki was a young boy, his mother had tuberculosis. Yasuko Kusakabe ( 草壁靖子, Kusakabe Yasuko) The girls' mother, recovering from an unnamed illness (confirmed by Miyazaki as being tuberculosis ) at Shichikokuyama Hospital, which is noted for its tuberculosis treatment program. Tatsuo Kusakabe ( 草壁タツオ, Kusakabe Tatsuo) The girls' father, who works in the archaeology and anthropology departments of a Tokyo university. The widely-distributed promotional image for the movie of a girl standing next to Totoro at a bus stop reflects the earlier conception with a single child. Her name deliberately echoes her sister's, May being the fifth month, reflecting the fact that the story originally featured one girl, who was then divided into an older and younger sister. Mei Kusakabe ( 草壁メイ, Kusakabe Mei) Satsuki's sister who is around four years old. Satsuki is the traditional name of the fifth month of the Japanese calendar, the equivalent of the English May. The movie ends with the girls delivering an ear of corn to their mother.Ĭharacters Satsuki Kusakabe ( 草壁サツキ, Kusakabe Satsuki) A girl around ten years old. When Mei leaves in her attempt to save her hospitalized mother, she and Satsuki take a ride on the cat-bus. Satsuki, Mei and their father live in the field, where Mei discovers a giant creature living in the forest near the house.