Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has often been referred to as the Walt Disney of Japan. I would argue in some cases he is even better than the man who created Mickey Mouse. The animation in his movies are stunning, the characters are humans who deal with real-life emotions and pains, and his stories have mostly no villains. His 1988 classic My Neighbor Totoro checks all those boxes and introduced the world to Miyazaki’s own Mickey Mouse even if this creature is limited to only saying his own name. Think of it as a Pokémon minus the annoyance. It’s hard to keep track, but I believe the last time I was in theatres to see a movie was in early March. Since then it’s been deep dives into movies I own and everything available on streaming services. This year Netflix got its hands-on Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli movies, which gave me a chance to check My Neighbor Totoro off my watch list. It will probably be a few more weeks at least before we can all go back to theatres, so I highly recommen