Soot Ball from My Neighbor Totoro

Toy Name: Soot Sprite Designer: Hayao Miyazaki Scale: 1/1 Currency: USD Original Price: 3.00 The enchanted Soot Balls are one of those characters that have made two appearances in Miyazaki films once in My Neighbor Totoro as Soot Sprites and the other in Spirited Away as Soot Balls.: Soot Ball It is definitely not that they are out of ideas but there is something to be said about a director, regardless how dissimilar their films are from the each other they always seem to revisit themes and character types throughout their filmography. Jean Luc Godard revisited a brutal torture scene from Le Petite Soldat in Pierrot Le Fou, almost mocking the seriousness of Le Petite Soldat’s torture scene. Kubrick will mirror many scenes from The Killers Kiss, the Killing, Lolita and Barry Lydon in Eyes Wide Shut and Sergio Leone would frame... [read full story]