Photos Top cast Edit. Chika Sakamoto Mei as Mei. Hayao Miyazaki. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A Kittenbus puppy, the cat-shaped bus that is one of the protagonists of My neighbor Totoro, becomes a great friend of little Mei and with her lives an incredible night adventure in the forest. Animation Short Comedy Family Fantasy. Add content advisory.
Did you know Edit. Quotes Mei : [to Kittenbus] So tiny. Connections Follows My Neighbor Totoro User reviews 3 Review. Top review. Master storyteller, animator and director always at his best. Mei to Koneko basu Mei and the Kitten Bus, is an enjoyable animated short with lovable characters, couple of them already known from Tonari no Totoro My Neighbor Totoro, feature-length movie, and a number of newly introduced ones.
A kind of spin-off of the original movie, this minute short can be seen only in the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, western suburb of Tokyo. And what a delightful visit there it was, 20 months ago, almost to the day, in May Story revolves around 4-year old Mei Kusakabe this time without her older sister Setsuki, making here only a brief appearance who befriends and babysits Koneko basu Kitten Bus , the offspring of the Neko basu Cat Bus , often compared to the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland.
Film offers many favourable ingredients contained in Miyazaki's other, mainly hand-drawn animated adventures: humorous, colourful characters, including child ren , often girl s protagonist s , character driven animation, subtlety in timing and movements, enchanting visuals with watercolour-like backgrounds, actions involving flying Lack of subtitles, to otherwise favourable original Japanese soundtrack, for a non-Japanese speaker Nihon-go wakarimasen!
And who could do it better than a master storyteller, rarely multitalented to simultaneously write, animate draw , direct and produce at the highest level, whose desire is not exhausted in the process of storytelling, since he prefers to participate and play himself, "suspected" and excused for finding in it as much fun as children do.
And, in doing so, he entertains the same desire in us, spectators on the receiving end of his generous and exuberant offer, until, smitten all along, we find the pure joy of it all I just write for the child in myself. Judging by loud ovation from the highest represented, otherwise traditionally self-controlled, if not self-restrained, Japanese children and their parents present at the screening in Ghibli Museum theatre: kids love it and adults enjoy it!
This time, Mei befriends a Kittenbus and takes her to the magical forest in which she encounters Totoro and the other forest creatures. This animation short is only shown exclusively at the Saturn Theater, located at the basement of the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Debo mantener la calma para quedarme serena. This was the Totoro follow-up I never knew I needed, but had me glassy-eyed and smiling at the end. It has enough of its own ideas to warrant the film yet it teases you with images that remind you of your love for the original characters.
Review by yiggyfresh. But NO. No film company does it better than Ghibli to combine nostalgia and environmentalism with traditional cartoon-drawing craft to nurture the young Japanese kids and those who watch their films globally a love for animals and nature. At one point the kittenbus resembles Cheshire Cat in Alice in the Wonderland - its pose and the disappearance.
So Ghibli's inspiration is global while its cultural setting is strictly local. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch. Totoro appears. Director Hayao Miyazaki. Toshio Suzuki. Hayao Miyazaki. Takeshi Seyama. Atsushi Okui. Ryoko Ina.
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