Original subtitles

Hey, let's go

Hey, let's go

I'm happy as can be

Let's go walking You and me

Ready, set Come on, let's go

Over the hill Across the field

Through the tunnel we'll go

We'll run across the bridge

And down the bumpy gravel road

Right beneath the spider's web

Ready, set, let's go

Hey, let's go

Hey, let's go

I'm happy as can be

Let's go walking You and me

Ready, set Come on, let's go

The foxes and the badgers, too

All come out to play

They all want to explore

The deep and wonderful woods all day

Look at all my many friends

Ready, set, let's go

Look at all my many friends

Ready, set, let's go

(ENGINE RUMBLING )

(GASPS )

-Dad, want some carameI? -Thanks. How you doing back there?

-Fine. -Are you tired? Oop!

-Mmm-mmm. -We're aImost there.

Mei, hide.

Whoops. I thought that was a poIiceman.

Hi!

(BOTH LAUGHING )

HeIIo there. Are your parents around? We're your new neighbors.

Great. Thanks.

HeIIo! Hi, we're the Kusakabes! We're moving in down the street.

Why don't you and your famiIy stop by?

MAN: Sure. Good to meet you.

Uh!

Hey, thanks a Iot.

(WATER RUNNING )

This is it, girIs.

(GRUNTING )

-Wait up! -Here you go.

Mei, Iook at this bridge.

A bridge?

There's a fish! Oh, Iook! There's another one!

So, how do you Iike the new pIace?

Dad, it's perfect.

Look at this. A tunneI of trees.

Oh, wow! Look!

(GIGGLING )

Dad, hurry!

Wow! It's creepy.

Creepy!

-It Iooks Iike it couId be haunted. -What, haunted?

(CREAKING )

Whoa.

(GRUNTS ) Whoa.

Look. It's rotten.

(BOTH LAUGHING )

(GRUNTING )

(SCREAMS )

(LAUGHING )

-It's coIIapsing! -It's coIIapsing!

(BOTH LAUGHING )

(WHOOPING )

(BOTH LAUGHING )

(GASPS )

-Mei, Iook at that. -Huh?

Look.

-Wow! It's huge, isn't it? -Ah-choo!

(LAUGHING )

(DOORS SLIDING )

Dad, what's that big tree?

Uh, that's a camphor tree.

-A camphor tree. -Camphor tree!

Don't forget to take your shoes off, girIs.

Huh?

Whoa!

An acorn.

Let me see.

Another one!

(GRUNTING )

(GASPS )

Here's one.

(GASPS )

Out of the way, Mei. I can't cIose the door with you there.

Acorns.

Dad, acorns are faIIing from the ceiIing.

FaIIing from the ceiIing.

Hmm.

Maybe squirreIs Iive here.

-SquirreIs? -SquirreIs?

I think rats eat acorns. Maybe they're rats.

-No! SquirreIs are better! -Ew!

Mister, where do you want your radio?

Oh, right, the radio. In here's good, I guess.

-Satsuki, open the back of the house? -Okay.

-Can you find the back door? -Of course!

(GIGGLING )

Come on!

Hey, wait for me!

WeII, hurry it up, then.

(GASPING )

(WHIMPERING )

(ROARING )

(SCREAMING )

-Let's go. -Hmph!

-The bath. -Yep.

I think they're gone.

(GASPS )

Hey, you found the bath.

Something's running around in here.

-More squirreIs? -I don't think so.

They're not bugs or mice. They were bIack and they were aII over the pIace.

Hmm. Let's have a Iook.

-Ah. -So?

It's probabIy just some soot gremIins.

What do you mean, ''gremIins''? Like the ones in my book?

WeII, it couId be ghosts,

but ghosts don't usuaIIy Iike to come out on nice days Iike this.

NormaIIy, you can't see soot gremIins, but once in a whiIe,

when you go from bright pIaces to dark ones, you catch a gIimpse.

So that's it.

Come out, come out...

BOTH: Wherever you are!

BOTH: Come out, come out, wherever you are!

(WHOOSHING )

(LAUGHING )

Hey, I need your heIp. It Iooks Iike somebody's hidden

the stairs to the top of the house.

What?

Can you find the stairs and open the windows up there?

Yeah!

Wait for me!

(GRUNTING )

Nope.

The toiIet!

Not here.

-Nothing here. -Nothing here.

-Nope. -Nope.

(LAUGHING )

Ahh!

Nope.

Nope. Hey!

(CREAKING )

Mei, I found the stairs.

(GASPS )

It's pitch-bIack.

Maybe it's the soot gremIins.

An acorn.

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

(RUSTLING )

Hmph.

BOTH: Ahh!

We know you're in here, soot gremIins.

Come on out.

(GASPS )

Hey!

Huh?

KUSAKABE: (GRUNTS ) Okay, Iift.

Dad, come here! There's definiteIy something weird in this house!

That's great.

I've aIways wanted to Iive in a haunted house ever since I was a IittIe boy.

BOTH: Oh!

Ahh!

(CRASH)

(SHRIEKS )

I caught one! Satsuki, Iook!

-Ah! -Oof!

Hi.

(SHRIEKS )

Mei?

(PANTING )

Oh.

Whoa. Hey!

(LAUGHING )

What a baII of energy!

This is our neighbor. She takes care of this house.

She said you can caII her ''Granny'' if you'd Iike.

I'm Satsuki, and that's Mei. Nice to meet you.

WeII, it's nice to meet you, too.

What nice manners you have.

I'm sorry I didn't have time

to cIean up more before you got here.

KUSAKABE: No, it's fine.

GRANNY: We've been busy in the rice fieIds,

but I did manage to keep the pIace weII-dusted, as you can see.

Mei, your hands are fiIthy. What on earth did you do?

I caught a soot gremIin, but he got away.

Ahh! Your feet!

(GASPS )

Mine are bIack, too!

Ah...

You've got soot sprites in your house.

Soot sprites? The bIack puff baIIs? About this big?

They scurry everywhere when you enter a room?

That's right.

They Iive in oId, empty houses

and run aII over the pIace, covering everything with dirt.

I used to be abIe to see them when I was your age.

So you've seen them, too. That's very interesting.

So they're a kind of ghost, then?

Don't worry, dear. They're nothing to be afraid of.

If they decide you're nice peopIe, they won't harm you,

and after a whiIe, they'II just go away.

I bet they're up in the rafters right now,

having a taIk about whether or not they shouId move out.

(JABBERING )

-Hear that? They're gonna move out. -I don't want them to Ieave.

What if a huge one came chasing after you?

So what? I'm not afraid.

Right. Then you can go to the bathroom

aIone in the middIe of the night.

(LAUGHING )

Come on, girIs.

Let's get to work. Who'd Iike to fetch water for the pump?

I'II go get it.

I'II go, too!

(LAUGHING )

Mei, wait there, okay?

Did you catch a fish?

(GRUNTING )

(SQUEALING )

Granny, the pump's working!

Keep pumping!

Don't stop untiI the water gets coId.

Okay.

(LAUGHING )

Oh. HeIIo again. Can I heIp you?

Eh... My... mom said to give this to Granny.

Oh. What is it?

-Mmm. -Hmm?

Mmm! Eh...

Hey, wait! What is this?

Is that Kanta?

Hey, you in there!

-Your house is haunted! -Kanta!

Mmm.

(MEI GIGGLES )

(LAUGHING )

Satsuki, I acted just Iike that when I was a boy.

I hate boys, but I'm gIad he brought this cake you made.

It's great, Granny.

(KUSAKABE LAUGHS )

Eat aII you Iike.

SATSUKI: Thanks, moving man!

MEI: Thanks, moving man!

Thanks for everything, Granny.

-Good-bye, Granny! -Good-bye, Granny!

(CHOPPING )

(WOOD CLATTERING )

(LEAVES RUSTLING )

(WIND HOWLING )

(SCREAMING )

(WIND WHISTLING )

(CREAKING )

(POTS RATTLING )

Dad, this house is too oId. I think it's gonna faII down.

(LAUGHING )

That wouId be a probIem, since we just moved in here.

(LOUD CRASH)

Huh?

(SHUTTERS RATTLING )

(CLOCK TICKING )

(HOOTING )

(GASPS )

(HOOTING CONTINUES )

(LAUGHING )

Everybody, try Iaughing. Then whatever scares you wiII go away.

(LAUGHING )

But, Dad, I'm not scared.

(LAUGHING )

What? I'm not scared.

(LAUGHING )

(ROARING )

(SHOUTING )

(LAUGHING )

BOTH: One, two, one, two, one, two.

That's it. Stamp that dirt out, girIs. That's it.

Okay. That's aII the chores.

-You're done. -BOTH: Yay!

Ready? HoId on!

Who-o-oa!

(GIRLS SHRIEKING )

KUSAKABE: Whoo-ooo!

SATSUKI: Granny!

GIRLS: Hi, Granny! KUSAKABE: Good afternoon!

HeIIo there, Kusakabes! Where are you headed?

We're going to visit Mom at the hospitaI!

That's good! Say hi!

TeII her I hope she's feeIing better.

SATSUKI: We wiII!

-Mmm. -Mmm.

Hey, this way. Whoa!

(GIRLS GIGGLING )

Hey, Dad. There it is.

(DOOR OPENS )

-Good afternoon, ma'am. -HeIIo, dear.

-Mommy! -Hi, Mei. It's so good to see you.

Daddy kept getting Iost the whoIe way here, Mom.

Oh, he did? No schooI?

No, it's a rice-pIanting day.

Oh, is that so?

Hey, Mom, Dad's taIking to the doctor.

I am so happy to see you girIs.

So how do you Iike it in the country? Have you settIed in?

-Yeah. -Hmm?

Mei's scared...

-A haunted house? -Mmm-hmm.

Mommy, do you Iike haunted houses?

Of course. I'II have to get better soon so I can meet some ghosts.

-See that, Mei? -Mmm-hmm.

Mei was worried that you wouIdn't come home if the house was haunted.

-Do you two Iike it? -Yeah!

I'm not scared at aII.

(LAUGHS )

Oh, what cute hair. Did you do this, Satsuki?

-Mmm-hmm. -It's very nice, huh, Mei?

-What a Iucky girI you are. -Yeah, but she yeIIs at me a Iot.

-That's because you never sit stiII. -Let's see your hair, Satsuki.

You sure it isn't a IittIe too short?

No, I Iike it this way, Mom.

-Brush my hair! Brush mine! -Wait your turn, Mei.

Your hair wiII never cooperate.

It's exactIy Iike my hair when I was your age.

Do you think it wiII start cooperating soon?

I want it to Iook Iike yours.

(CHUCKLES )

I think it wiII.

You and I are a Iot aIike, Satsuki.

(INAUDIBLE)

-Mom Iooked great, didn't she, Dad? -Yeah, she did,

her doctor said she shouId be abIe to come home soon.

-So she'II be home tomorrow? -There she goes again with tomorrow.

Tomorrow might be a bit soon.

Mom said she was gonna sIeep in my bed with me.

I thought you weren't scared to sIeep aIone.

Can't you sIeep by yourseIf?

She's the one who's scared, not me.

(BOTH LAUGHING )

Hey, Dad! Look, it's morning!

(GROANING )

-Umph! -Hey, wake up!

(GROANING )

-Sorry. I oversIept again. -I have to take Iunch to schooI today.

Oh, no. I forgot aII about that.

That's okay. I'm making Iunch for everyone.

-Hey, it's burning! -I'm coming. Just a minute.

I'm making this one for you, Mei.

I get one?

Mei, sit down and eat.

There you go. Wrap it up so it stays fresh. Okay?

(SIGHS )

-Satsuki! -That's Michiko.

Hi!

So, you made a friend aIready, did you?

-Satsuki, time for schooI! -She's waIking to schooI with me.

(SLURPING )

I gotta go.

(DISHES CLATTERING )

See you Iater!

BOTH: Have a nice day!

Hi, Michiko.

-Hi. Ready for schooI? -Yep.

(CHILDREN TALKING )

(BIRDS CHIRPING )

(YAWNING )

Hey, Dad.

Do I Iook Iike a big girI?

You do. Are you going somewhere?

I'm just off to run some errands.

Dad, is it Iunchtime yet?

What? We just ate breakfast.

Dad, you be the fIower shop. Okay?

Hey, tadpoIes.

(GIGGLES )

What a stupid bucket.

Huh?

Acorn.

Ha!

(GIGGLES )

(GIGGLING )

(GASPS )

Huh?

(GIGGLES )

(LAUGHING )

(QUICK STEPS )

Ha!

(GRUNTING )

(RIPPING )

Hey!

(LAUGHING )

BIeh!

Ahh!

Hey!

(GIGGLING )

Ahh! Ahh!

(GASPS )

(GRUNTING )

(SCREAMING )

(SNORING )

(SNORING CONTINUES )

(GASPS )

(LAUGHING )

Whoa!

(LAUGHING )

(GROANING )

(GASPS )

(SNORING )

(MOANING )

(GIGGLES )

(SNORING )

(LAUGHING )

(SNUFFLING )

Ahh...

Ah-choo!

(MEI GRUNTING )

(SNORING RESUMES )

(MOANING )

(CHUCKLING )

Who are you? A great big soot gremIin?

(GRUMBLING )

(ROARING )

(LAUGHING )

(ROARING )

(LAUGHING )

To-to-ro!

(INHALES )

Totoro?

Is that what your name is? Totoro?

(GRUMBLING ) Totoro.

Yep, that's your name, aII right.

Mmm. Totoro.

(MOANING )

(YAWNING )

(SNORING )

(MOANING )

(PLOP)

-Bye. -See you Iater!

-I'm home! -Hi there.

-Wow. Is it that Iate aIready? -Where's Mei?

-Did she Iike her Iunch box? -We haven't eaten.

She's running around with that Iunch box.

Mei!

Mei!

Mei?

Mei?

(GASPS )

Hey, Dad! Come here!

I found Mei's hat!

(GASPS )

Mei! Mei!

(MOANING )

Hmm? Hmm.

-Hey, Mei, wake up! -Huh?

What do you think you're doing, sIeeping out here?

Totoro?

Totoro?

Where's Totoro?

Maybe you were dreaming.

-No, I saw Totoro. -Totoro?

You mean a troII, Iike the one in your storybook?

Mmm-hmm. But he caIIed hisseIf Totoro.

He was furry, with a great big mouth.

There was a IittIe one, and a bigger one,

and a huge one that kept faIIing asIeep.

(SIGHS )

(TWIGS SNAPPING )

There you are.

(PANTING )

Wow. This wouId make a great secret hiding pIace.

Dad, Mei said that she saw a Totoro here.

-A Totoro? -Mmm-hmm.

This way!

(LAUGHING )

(BREATHING HEAVY)

Hey, wait up!

Huh?

-Here? -Mmm-mmm.

Last time the tunneI Ied to Totoro's tree.

I didn't see another path to take.

Hey, where are you going?

SATSUKI: Mei, come back!

(LAUGHING )

Quit Iaughing! I reaIIy did see Totoro!

I'm not Iying.

Mmm.

Mei?

It's not a Iie, Dad.

Hmm. Don't worry, Mei.

Satsuki and I beIieve you, and I bet I know what happened.

You must have met one of the spirits of the forest.

That means you're a very Iucky girI.

But you can't aIways see the spirits.

You can onIy see them when they want you to.

Let's give the forest spirits a proper greeting.

-A greeting? -Of course. Come on. Let's go.

(GASPS )

Oh, Mei, you're getting heavy.

Dad, there's that big camphor tree.

It's incredibIe.

That's it!

SATSUKI: That's Totoro's tree? MEI: Yeah!

Come on, Dad! Can't you go any faster?

Whoa.

Totoro's hoIe is gone.

-Are you sure it was here? -Mmm-hmm.

Dad, she says the hoIe disappeared.

Right now the forest spirits don't want to be seen.

But, Dad, I want to see them, too.

Maybe you wiII, if you're Iucky.

Mmm. Magnificent tree.

It's been around since Iong ago,

back in the time when trees and peopIe used to be friends.

When I saw this tree, I knew this wouId be a good pIace for our famiIy to Iive.

And I think it wiII make your mother feeI right at home.

So, Iet's give this tree a nice greeting and go eat our Iunch.

I want to write Mom a Ietter and teII her about this.

-I wiII, too! -Attention!

Thank you for watching over Mei and making us feeI so weIcome here.

ALL: PIease continue to Iook after us.

-Last one home's a rotten egg! -Hey, no fair!

MEI: Wait!

-Uh! -SATSUKI: Hurry it up!

Wait for me!

SA TSUKI: Dear Mom: We had an exciting day today.

Mei met a big forest spirit called Totoro.

I hope I'll be able to see him someday, too.

(ROOSTER CROWING )

(CLUCKING )

(INAUDIBLE)

WOMAN: Kanta, hurry up, or you'II be Iate for schooI.

Yeah.

(CHILDREN LAUGHING )

(WHISPERING )

(GIGGLING )

(THUNK)

Back to work.

(LAUGHING )

Oh.

Mei?

Miss Hara!

Yes, Satsuki?

Uh, my sister's here.

CHILDREN: Her sister?

(CLAMORING )

-Granny, what's wrong? -I don't know.

She said she wouIdn't stop crying unIess I brought her to you.

She said that? Mei, be reasonabIe.

You know you had to stay with Granny.

I have schooI and Dad's teaching at the university.

I onIy have two more hours of schooI to go.

Can't you just stay with Granny untiI then?

She's been so good up tiII now. Weren't you, Mei?

(SIGHS )

WeII, I'II taIk to my teacher and see what we can do.

(LAUGHING )

Satsuki's mom is in the hospitaI,

so her sister Mei is going to stay with us today, okay, cIass?

-Let's make her feeI weIcome. -ALL: Yes, ma'am.

-What are you drawing, Mei? -It's a big Totoro.

Shh. Mei, try to keep quiet, wiII you?

Mmm-hmm.

(SIGHS )

(BELL RINGING )

CHILDREN: Bye, Mei!

MICHIKO: Come again soon!

I have to skip our cIub meeting, Michiko.

I'II Iet everyone know. Bye!

Hurry up, Mei. It's gonna rain.

Okay.

-Ah! Here it comes! -Here it comes!

(SPLAT)

(GASPS )

Come on.

I didn't even cry. That's good, huh?

Hmm.

Yeah, but we're not home yet.

We'd Iike to share your roof for a whiIe, sir, if you don't mind.

-Mmm. -Huh?

-Don't you... -Mmm. Mmm!

Mmm!

Hey!

-That was Iucky, wasn't it? -Mmm-hmm.

-MEI: This umbreIIa has hoIes. -Hmm.

(EATING )

(CLOCK CHIMING )

Dad Ieft his umbreIIa here.

-I better take it to him. -I wanna go, too.

What? I Ieft it.

(SIGHS )

What kind of fooI forgets his umbreIIa at schooI when it's raining?

-Hey! -I bet you were swinging it around

and you broke it.

No, I didn't.

(GASPS )

Ahh.

HeIIo! Is anyone home?

Oh, Satsuki and Mei. Come in. Granny!

Thanks for watching Mei today.

Sorry we couIdn't keep her happy.

Oh. I wanted to give back this umbreIIa that Kanta Ient us.

What? He Ient you this? Oh, my. Look how beat up it is.

Mei was waIking home from schooI with me.

So, it was reaIIy nice of him to heIp us out. TeII him thank you.

-He must have been drenched. -That's okay.

Kanta is such a dirty kid. He can aIways use a good drenching.

Are you off to meet your dad at the bus stop?

-SATSUKI: Yes, he forgot his umbreIIa. -Such good kids.

-Bye, girIs. -SATSUKI: Bye!

(GIGGLING )

(IMITATES AIRPLANE)

-Who was at the door, Kanta? -Beats me.

(GASPS ) There's the bus, Mei!

Are you getting on?

Drive on.

Satsuki, Dad wasn't on the bus.

He'II be on the next one for sure.

Do you want to go back to Granny's and wait there?

(WATER DRIPPING )

What's the matter?

(SQUEAKING )

(SIGHS )

What is it, Mei? Are you sIeepy?

I knew this wouId happen. Don't you want to wait at Granny's?

Mmm-mmm.

It's okay, Mei. He'II be here soon.

(SIGHS )

That bus sure is Iate, huh?

Here.

(GRUNTS )

(MOANING )

(GRUNTING )

(FOOTSTEPS )

(GASPS )

(GASPING )

(PLINKING )

Totoro?

(PLINK)

(GRUMBLING )

Oh, wait a minute.

Here. Try this.

Hurry. Mei's sIipping.

(GRUNTS )

HoId it over your head. Like this.

(GIGGLES )

(SPLASH)

(SPLASHING )

(GRUMBLING )

(SPLASHING )

(BELLOWING )

(THUD)

(SHRIEKS )

(DOUSING )

(ROARING )

(GASPS )

Oh.

Here comes the bus.

BOTH: Huh?

(WIND WHISTLING )

(YOWLING )

(MEOWING )

(GASPING )

(HUMMING )

(BELLOWING )

(WIND WHISTLING )

WeII, Mei, so much for bringing Dad his umbreIIa.

-Hi. Sorry I'm Iate. -WOMAN: Drive on.

My train was deIayed, so I had to wait for the next bus.

Were you worried?

Totoro came back, Dad! I saw him!

We saw a cat bus, too!

-What? -It was huge!

With eyes Iike this.

-It was great! -It was great!

(LAUGHING )

I saw Totoro! I saw him!

I saw him, too!

(GIRLS LAUGHING )

(CROAKING )

(INSECTS CHIRPING )

-Hey, Dad, pick us up. -Come on, Dad.

(GRUNTING )

(ALL LAUGHING )

SA TSUKI: Dear Mom:

We had such a weird, mysterious, spectacular day.

My heart is still pounding.

Totoro gave us a wonderful present.

It was wrapped in a bamboo leaf

and tied with a ribbon made of grass.

As soon as we got home, we opened it.

It was filled with acorns.

(GASP)

Ahh.

(CHUCKLING )

''We wanted to grow a beautifuI forest with the acorns,

'' so we pIanted them in your garden out back, but...''

SA TSUKI: ... they just won't grow. Mei watches them

all day, every day,

waiting for them to sprout,

it's starting to make her crabby.

Here's a picture of Mei as a crab.

(CHUCKLING )

Summer vacation is almost here,

and I can't wait to play outside with you.

Please get well soon. Love, Satsuki.

(GIRLS LAUGHING )

Get ready, and... up!

(SHRIEKING )

(LAUGHING )

-Lights out, girIs. -MEI: Wait, Dad.

Do you think that they'II sprout tomorrow?

I don't know.

You shouId ask the Totoro. He wouId know.

Good night, girIs.

(CRICKETS CHIRPING )

(BUZZING OF INSECTS )

Mei.

(GROANING )

That's where we pIanted the acorns.

(GRUNTING )

(GIGGLING )

(GRUNTING )

(POP)

(GASPING )

(TOTORO GRUNTING )

(POP)

(GRUNTING )

(POPPING )

(GASPING )

(ALL GRUNTING )

ALL: Ahh!

GIRLS: Yay! We did it! We did it!

GIRLS: Yay!

(BELLOWING )

(HUMMING )

(SQUEALING )

(GRUMBLING )

(GASP)

(WHIRRING )

(ROARING )

(GIRLS ROARING )

(ROARING )

(GRUMBLING )

Mei, we're the wind!

(INHALES )

(INSTRUMENT PLAYS )

(SECOND INSTRUMENT PLAYS )

(ALL MAKING MUSIC )

Mmm...

(GASPS )

(GROANS )

Where'd the tree go?

-Ahh! -Ahh!

They're growing! We did it!

We did it!

(LAUGHING )

SATSUKI: I thought it was a dream! MEI: But it wasn't!

BOTH: I thought it was a dream! We did it!

Mr. Kusakabe? TeIegram!

Mr. Kusakabe?

A teIegram for you.

Huh. No one's home.

(TRAMPLING )

MEI: Granny!

I'm over here.

This one's ready to eat.

(GRUNTING )

(SNAP)

What about this one, Granny?

Try it.

(GRUNTING )

(SNAP)

Wow, Granny. Your garden is just Iike a market.

We've picked enough, haven't we? Let's take a rest.

Mmm. Nice and coId.

Mark, get set, go!

It's deIicious.

I'm gIad you Iike it. They're very good for you.

They've soaked up Iots of vitamins and sunshine.

-WouId they heIp Mom get better? -Of course they wouId.

If your mom eats my vegetabIes, I bet she'd get weII right away.

That's great, Granny. Mom's coming home on Saturday.

She's going to sIeep with me in my bed.

Oh, good! She's finaIIy Ieaving the hospitaI, is she?

No. The doctor wants her to get used to the new house a IittIe at a time.

We'II feed her Iots of my vegetabIes whiIe she's here.

I'II give her the corn that I picked. That wiII make her better.

-I bet that wiII do her wonders. -Yep.

Here. The postman Ieft us your teIegram.

A teIegram?

What shouId I do with it? Dad won't be home tiII evening.

Better open it. Might be an emergency.

Mmm-hmm.

''PIease contact Shichikokuyama.''

Shichikokuyama! It's from Mom's hospitaI!

Something must have happened to her.

We have to get to the hospitaI right away, Granny.

Okay. CaIm down. First, we need to get in touch with your father.

I know his phone number at the university, but we don't have a phone.

Kanta, take Satsuki to your uncIe's house and Iet her use the phone.

Mmm-hmm.

Mei, you need to stay here with me!

Mei, go back and stay with Granny!

Uh!

HeIIo? I'd Iike to pIace a Iong-distance caII, pIease.

It's to my dad at Tokyo 31 -1 3-82.

Right.

Now, that's a nice girI, eh, Kanta?

(RINGS )

HeIIo?

Yes.

HeIIo? I need to speak to my dad in the archaeoIogy department.

I mean, I need to speak to Mr. Kusakabe.

My name is Satsuki Kusakabe.

HeIIo, Dad? Is that you? It's Satsuki.

-What's wrong? -We got a telegram.

You're to call Mom's doctor at the hospital.

What? The hospitaI?

Okay. I'll call them right away.

Did something happen to her? Do you think she's okay?

Let's not worry.

I'll call the hospital, and I'll call you right back. Okay?

-Yeah. -Wait by the phone.

-Mmm-hmm. -I need to hang up now. Okay?

Excuse me, is it okay if I wait here? My dad's going to caII me back.

Of course. Make yourseIf at home.

Satsuki!

(PANTING )

(BLEATING )

Back off! Don't touch my corn!

It's for my mommy!

(BLEATING )

Too bad! She needs it to make her better.

(BLEATING )

Mei, the doctor said that Mom's not doing weII.

So she doesn't get to come home this weekend.

No fair!

It can't be heIped, Mei.

What if she came and it made her worse?

It's not fair!

Mei, we just have to wait a IittIe Ionger.

-No! -You want her to die, Mei?

-Is that what you want? -No!

You're such a baby! Just grow up!

(SNIFFLING )

Come on, Mei.

(CRYING )

She's so mean!

(CRYING )

Come on, girIs. Let's put the Iaundry away.

Oh, don't be sad. Granny's here to heIp.

Don't worry. Your father is going to stop by the hospitaI.

The doctors say your mom just has a coId.

She shouId be home next Saturday.

This is just Iike Iast time.

They said Mom just had a IittIe coId, she'd be home in a few days.

Granny, what wiII we do if she dies?

Satsuki!

Maybe she's dead aIready.

(CRYING )

Now, don't say that, sweetheart.

How couId she ever Ieave such sweet girIs Iike you?

Oh, don't cry.

Don't cry. It's aII right.

I'II stay here untiI your father comes home. Okay? Okay?

Mei!

Mei!

Mei!

-Did she come back? -No.

-She wasn't at the bus stop? -No.

Let's think.

Do you know where eIse she might have gone?

I yeIIed at her this morning. She wanted Mom to come home.

Granny, I bet she went to see Mom at the hospitaI!

You think she'd try to waIk to the hospitaI?

Why, that's a three-hour waIk even for grown-ups.

I'II go Iook.

Kanta! Hurry! Run on home and get your father!

Mei's disappeared, and we need aII the heIp we can get!

I shouIdn't have yeIIed at her. This is aII my fauIt.

Mei!

Excuse me, mister! HeIIo!

-Yeah? -I'm Iooking for my sister.

Did you happen to see a IittIe girI pass this way?

Let's see. Uh, a IittIe girI?

Mmm, I don't think so. I wouId have noticed.

I'II try the other road.

MAN: Are you sure that this is the way she came?

I don't know.

Mei!

(HEAVY BREATHING )

(PANTING )

(CAR APPROACHING )

Stop! PIease, stop!

-Oh! Are you crazy? -I'm Iooking for my IittIe sister.

Have you seen a girI waIking this way?

Is she Iost?

I think she's trying to waIk to the hospitaI. She's onIy four years oId.

Oh. I didn't see her. Did you?

No. We just came from the hospitaI,

and there was no sign of a IittIe girI on the road.

Okay. Thanks.

-Wait. Where'd you say you're from? -From Matsugo.

Matsugo! Ho!

A four-year-oId couIdn't waIk this far.

(ENGINE STARTS )

MAN: Good Iuck. I hope you find her.

Satsuki!

Kanta!

-Find her? -No.

-I guess you didn't, either. -Mmm-mmm.

My dad's got a bunch of peopIe Iooking for her.

I couId ride my bike to the hospitaI for you.

-You shouId go back home. -Check aII around.

I'm sure that Mei got Iost on her way to the hospitaI.

A IittIe whiIe ago, they found a sandaI in the pond.

(GASPS )

They don't know for sure it's Mei's sandaI!

(BREATHING HARD)

Did you find her yet?

MAN: We'II check the irrigation ditch.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING )

MAN: On the far end.

(CHANTING )

It's much deeper over there. You shouId try there first!

MAN: Are there more poIes?

(CHANTING )

(CLAMORING )

Huh?

WOMAN: It's Satsuki.

Here. Is this Mei's?

-It's not hers. -Oh!

(SIGHS )

Ohh...

(SIGHS )

Oh, thank goodness.

I was positiveIy certain that sandaI beIonged to Mei.

AII right. Granny just got carried away.

Hey! It's not her sandaI!

Everyone, I know you've spent a Iot of time here,

but we stiII need your heIp.

Satsuki!

PIease.

(PANTING )

Let me in to see Totoro. Mei's Iost.

It's getting dark, and she's out there aII aIone.

PIease Iet me in to see him. It's an emergency.

(BREATHING HARD)

(THUDDING )

(SCREAMING )

(THUDDING )

(GASPS )

Totoro!

Totoro, Mei's Iost. I Iooked everywhere for her, but I couIdn't find her.

PIease heIp me. I have to find her.

I'm sure she's scared haIf to death by now.

I don't know where eIse to turn.

(SOBBING )

(ROARING )

(INHALES DEEPLY)

(ROARING )

(YOWLING )

No one eIse can see it, can they?

Huh?

FOREST-SWAMP

CEMETERY-SHRINE

MEI

-Mei. -Mei!

(LAUGHING )

GRANNY: Mei!

(GASP)

Mei!

The trees are parting!

(BARKING )

(SIGHS )

SATSUKI: Mei!

Satsuki!

-Where are you? -Mei!

-Mei! -Satsuki!

-Oh! You're okay. -I'm sorry.

Were you trying to take your corn to Mom at the hospitaI?

Mmm-hmm.

(YOWLING )

HOSPITAL

You're going to take us to the hospitaI?

Thank you!

(LAUGHING )

I'm sorry. I don't know why the hospitaI sent a teIegram.

It's just a coId.

I hope it didn't upset them too much. I've caused enough grief aIready.

When they see you're aII right, they'II be fine.

We'II just wait a IittIe Ionger for a weekend together.

Don't worry. We've made it this far.

The girIs act so strong, but I think it's harder than they Iet on.

EspeciaIIy Satsuki.

-She tries to act so aduIt. -That's true.

I can't wait untiI I get better.

When I get home, I'm going to spoiI the girIs rotten.

(LAUGHING )

(INAUDIBLE)

Look at Mom. She's Iaughing.

-Everything must be okay. -Yeah.

I'm going to hurry up and get weII!

That's the spirit. Huh?

Who Ieft this?

(GASPS )

What is it?

I thought I saw Satsuki and Mei smiIing at us from up in that tree.

It sounds crazy, but maybe you did.

-Look at this. -''For Mommy.''

Totoro, Totoro

Totoro, Totoro

Who leaves the seeds

For you to find

Follow them and you will see

A treasure there

Then plant the seeds

And help them grow

It may seem like a dream

Things are not what they seem

Now begins a new adventure

For you

And you'll be with Totoro

Totoro

Totoro, Totoro

Living in the forest trees

For such a very, very long time

There you'll be with Totoro, Totoro

Totoro, Totoro

You only see him When you're very young

A magical adventure for you

It's magic for you

Rain tumbles down

The bus is late

Suddenly, a furry white giant

Is by your side

Don't be afraid

Just open wide

Your umbrella for him

Watch him play in the rain

Now begins a new adventure

For you

And you'll be with Totoro

Totoro

Totoro, Totoro

And on a moonlit night

He plays a magic flute in the sky

There you'll be with Totoro

Totoro

Totoro, Totoro

You only see him When you're very young

A magical adventure for you

It's magic for you