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=== Home media=== [[Tokuma Shoten]] released ''My Neighbor Totoro'' on [[VHS]] and [[LaserDisc]] in August 1988.<ref name=":5b" /> [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan]] (now Walt Disney Japan) reissued the VHS on June 27, 1997, as part of their series ''Ghibli ga Ippai''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Denison |first=Rayna |author-link=Rayna Denison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKOfCgAAQBAJ&dq=my+neighbour+totoro+Ghibli+ga+Ippai&pg=PA125 |title=Anime: A Critical Introduction |date=2015-10-22 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4725-7676-7 |language=en |access-date=February 10, 2024 |archive-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531170045/https://books.google.com/books?id=IKOfCgAAQBAJ&dq=my+neighbour+totoro+Ghibli+ga+Ippai&pg=PA125 |url-status=live }}</ref> Disney released the film on [[Blu-ray]] in Japan on 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lambie |first=Ryan |date=2012-11-09 |title=Looking back at My Neighbor Totoro |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/looking-back-at-my-neighbor-totoro/ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |language=en-US |archive-date=February 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226080910/https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/looking-back-at-my-neighbor-totoro/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After the rights to the Streamline dub expired in 2004,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ogihara-Schuck |first=Eriko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLHZBAAAQBAJ&dq=my+neighbour+totoro+Turner+Classic+Movies&pg=PA220 |title=Miyazaki's Animism Abroad: The Reception of Japanese Religious Themes by American and German Audiences |date=2014-10-16 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7262-8 |page=102 |language=en |access-date=February 10, 2024 |archive-date=May 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501151836/https://books.google.com/books?id=zLHZBAAAQBAJ&dq=my+neighbour+totoro+Turner+Classic+Movies&pg=PA220 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] re-released the movie on DVD on March 7, 2006, with Disney's newly produced English dub and the original Japanese version. The company reissued ''My Neighbor Totoro'', as well as ''[[Castle in the Sky]]'', and ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', with updated cover art highlighting its Studio Ghibli origins, on March 2, 2010, coinciding with the US DVD and Blu-ray debut of ''[[Ponyo]]''. ''My Neighbor Totoro'' was re-released by Disney on Blu-Ray on May 21, 2013. [[GKIDS]] re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on October 17, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/gkids-studio-ghibli-ink-home-entertainment-deal-1021746|title=Gkids, Studio Ghibli Ink Home Entertainment Deal|author=Carolyn Giardina|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 17, 2017|access-date=July 17, 2017|archive-date=July 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722144250/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/gkids-studio-ghibli-ink-home-entertainment-deal-1021746|url-status=live}}</ref> In Japan, ''My Neighbor Totoro'' had sold 3.5{{nbsp}}million VHS and DVD units as of April 2012,<ref>{{cite news |title=「となりのトトロ」ついにブルーレイ発売 |url=http://movies.jp.msn.com/news/article.aspx?articleid=986774 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502072542/http://movies.jp.msn.com/news/article.aspx?articleid=986774 |archive-date=May 2, 2012 |work=MSN エンタメ |publisher=[[MSN]] |date=May 2, 2012}}</ref> equivalent to approximately {{JPY|{{#expr:3.5*4600}} million|long=no}} ({{US$|{{To USD|16100|JPN|year=2012|round=yes}} million|long=no}}) at an average retail price of {{JPY|4600}} ({{JPY|4700}} on DVD and {{JPY|4500}} on VHS).<ref>{{cite web |title=My Neighbor Totoro: Video List |url=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/video/totoro/ |website=Nausicaa.net |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225145501/http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/video/totoro/ |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the United States, the film sold over 500,000 VHS units by 1996,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Furniss |first1=Maureen |title=Animation: Art and Industry |date=2009 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |isbn=978-0-86196-904-3 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBvnBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 |language=en |access-date=February 4, 2019 |archive-date=June 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607023951/https://books.google.com/books?id=NBvnBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 |url-status=live }}</ref> with the later 2010 DVD release selling a further 3.8{{nbsp}}million units and grossing {{US$|64.5 million|long=no}} in the United States as of October 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tonari no Totoro (1996) - Video Sales |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tonari-no-Totoro-(Japan)#tab=video-sales |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217144604/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tonari-no-Totoro-(Japan) |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the UK, the film's Studio Ghibli anniversary release appeared on the annual lists of ten-best-selling [[foreign language film]]s on home video for five consecutive years, ranking number seven in 2015,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2016.pdf |title=Statistical Yearbook 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] (BFI) |year=2016 |location=United Kingdom |page=144 |access-date=25 April 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520120749/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2016.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> number six in 2016<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2017.pdf |title=Statistical Yearbook 2017 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] (BFI) |year=2017 |location=United Kingdom |pages=140–1 |access-date=25 April 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520211817/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2017.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and 2017,<ref name=":222">{{Cite book |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2018.pdf |title=Statistical Yearbook 2018 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] (BFI) |year=2018 |location=United Kingdom |pages=97–8 |access-date=25 April 2022 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528130725/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> number one in 2018,<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2019.pdf |title=Statistical Yearbook 2019 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] (BFI) |year=2019 |location=United Kingdom |pages=103–4 |access-date=26 April 2022 |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426214923/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2019.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and number two in 2019 below ''[[Spirited Away]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/statistical-yearbook |title=BFI Statistical Yearbook 2020 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] (BFI) |year=2020 |location=United Kingdom |page=94 |access-date=30 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427095000/https://core-cms.bfi.org.uk/media/12815/download |archive-date=27 April 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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