Twee meisjes verhuizen met hun vader naar het platteland om in de buurt te zijn van het verpleegtehuis waar hun moeder ligt. Satsuki en Mei ontdekken dat het nabijgelegen bos bevolkt is door wonderlijke wezens.
Ja! de film Mijn Buurman Totoro is nu beschikbaar om te kijken op Netflix in Nederland.
| Editing | Takeshi Seyama | Editor |
| Art | Kazuo Oga | Art Direction |
| Production | Yasuyoshi Tokuma | Executive Producer |
| Production | Eiko Tanaka | Line Producer |
| Directing | Hayao Miyazaki | Director |
| Writing | Hayao Miyazaki | Writer |
| Production | Tooru Hara | Producer |
| Sound | Joe Hisaishi | Original Music Composer |
| Visual Effects | Hitomi Tateno | Animation Manager |
| Art | Masaki Yoshizaki | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Makoto Tanaka | Animation |
| Art | Hidetoshi Kaneko | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Yasuko Tachiki | Animation Manager |
| Art | Shinji Kimura | Background Designer |
| Art | Nobuhiro Otsuka | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Yoshiharu Sato | Animation Supervisor |
| Art | Yoji Takeshige | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Endou | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yoshinori Kanada | Animation |
| Art | Keiko Tamura | Background Designer |
| Art | Tsuyoshi Matsumuro | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Masako Shinohara | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hideko Tagawa | Animation |
| Art | Toshio Nozaki | Background Designer |
| Art | Makoto Shiraishi | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Komasa | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Makiko Futaki | Animation |
| Art | Junko Ina | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Toshio Kawaguchi | Animation |
| Art | Kiyomi Oota | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Tsukasa Tannai | Animation |
| Art | Hajime Matsuoka | Background Designer |
| Art | Yuko Matsuura | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Tensai Okamura | Animation |
| Art | Kiyoko Sugawara | Background Designer |
| Art | Sadahiko Tanaka | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Katsuya Kondo | Animation |
| Camera | Hisao Shirai | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Tetsuya Endo | Assistant Director |
| Art | Michiyo Yasuda | Painter |
| Production | Toshio Suzuki | Producer |
| Art | Akira Yamakawa | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Hiroomi Yamakawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Otsuka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masaki Kudo | Key Animation |
| Writing | Hayao Miyazaki | Original Story |
