Exciting news for those of you who have tickets to the Ghibli Park in Aichi next month! The park has recently unveiled its film lineup for the latter part of 2023 through early 2024. While it's currently screening the short film ‘Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess’, November will welcome the 14-minute sequel to Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 classic, ‘My Neighbor Totoro’.
Known as ‘Mei and the Baby Cat Bus’, this short anime has delighted visitors at Tokyo’s Ghibli Museum since 2002. Despite its popularity, the film isn't a regular fixture at the museum, making appearances sporadically during selected seasons.
The enchanting story centres on Mei, who stumbles upon a young Cat Bus who’s been separated from its parents. Mei quickly befriends the Kitten Bus and together they embark on a nocturnal adventure in the forest, meeting iconic characters like Totoro, soot sprites and other Cat Buses along the way.
This short and sweet story, directed by Miyazaki himself with music by Joe Hisaishi, has never been screened outside Japan. So this is a golden opportunity for Ghibli enthusiasts visiting the park in November to catch another adventure with Totoro and the forest spirits.
Following ‘Mei and the Baby Cat Bus’s one-month stint at the Ghibli Warehouse cinema, December will introduce ‘The Day I Bought a Star’, while January will present the whimsical ‘A Sumo Wrestler’s Tail’. The schedule for subsequent months is to be announced in due course.
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