Hayao Miyazaki is a legendary director and animator whose entire filmography is exceptional, so ranking his films is no easy ...

Plus, it's home to a mob of tiny but adorable spirits called Susuwatari (Sootsprites). The house is in the middle of a ...

Appear in: My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Spirited Away (2001) What are they? The susuwatari, or soot sprites, have the distinction of appearing in not one but two Miyazaki movies, though they’re a ...

There’s also the repulsive Stink Spirit, a huge puddle of sludge, and the Susuwatari, small fuzzballs whose entire existence revolves around endlessly putting coal in the bathhouse boiler.