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Win Totoro & Howl’s Moving Castle on Blu-ray!

My Neighbor Totoro / Howl’s Moving Castle

If you’re a fan of Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, this giveaway should feel like Christmas and your birthday rolled into one! We have three copies each of the brand new Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro (25th Anniversary) Blu-ray sets, courtesy of Walt Disney Home Entertainment (available May 21).

Produced by Miyazaki’s acclaimed Studio Ghibli, the films will appear on Blu-ray for the first time with a spectacular new HD digital transfer with perfect picture and sound to best enjoy the celebrated films. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) follows Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer), a hardworking teenage girl whose simple life changes when she meets a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl (Christian Bale) and attracts the jealous anger of the Witch of the Wast (Lauren Bacall) who turns the girl into a 90-year-old woman (Jean Simmons). Blu-ray bonus features include original storyboards, Japanese TV spots and trailers, “Behind the Microphone,” interview with Pixar’s Pete Docter, and Hello Mr. Lasseter: Hayao Miyazaki Visits Pixar Animation Studios.

In My Neighbor Totoro (1988), two young sisters Satsuki (Dakota Fanning) and Mei (Elle Fanning) move with their father to a new house in the countryside, where they discover fantastic creatures and the giant but kindly forest spirit Totoro who leads them on an incredible journey. Blu-ray bonuses include original storyboards, Japanese trailer, “Behind the Microphone,” and a series of “Behind the Studio” featurettes: Creating My Neighbor Totoro, Creating the Characters, The Totoro Experience, Producer’s Perspective: Creating Ghibli, The Locations of Totoro and Scoring Miyazaki.

All you have to do is answer the following question correctly and email your name and address to webmaster@animationmagazine.net, with the subject line Totoro Giveaway.

Question: When Satsuki and Mei move into their new house in Totoro, they find it is already occupied by little black Soot Sprites. In what other Miyazaki film do the Sprites appear?

A. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
B. Kiki’s Delivery Service
C. Spirited Away
D. Princess Mononoke

Good luck!