In American films there is a level of realism that if you enter danger then you will surely be killed, and that entering life threatening paths in Japan will take you to magical worlds.
'Bambi' is an American animation that shows the dangers of leaving the safety zone, once you enter outside the safety of the forest Bambi's mother is shot.
'my neighbor totoro' is the total opposite where leaving the safe zone will not be consequential but instead magical and blissful.
