This DVD release is the first version of the film in the US to include both Japanese and English language tracks.

The rights to this dub expired in 2004, so Walt Disney Home Entertainment re-released the film on Mawith a new dub cast. This dub was released in 1993 to United States theaters, and the following year on VHS and LaserDisc in the US by Fox Video in 1994, and on DVD in 2002. Films banner, distributed the dub of the film. In 1989, Streamline Pictures produced an English-language dub for exclusive use on transpacific flights of Japan Airlines.

The film stars voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi, and tells the story of a professor's young daughters Satsuki and Mei, and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. My Neighbor Totoro ( Japanese: となりのトトロ, Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten.