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Pom Poko

Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko

Japan

1994

119 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Isao Takahata

EXEC Hayao Miyazaki

PROD Ned Lott, Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma

SCR Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki

CAST Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shigeru Izumiya, Gannosuke Ashiya, Takehiro Murata, Beichou Katsura, Bunshi Katsura, Kosan Yanagiya, Akira Kamiya, Rei Sakuma, Tomokazu Seki, Minoru Yada, Yorie Yamashita, Megumi Hayashibara, Rin Mizuhara

ED Takeshi Seyama

ANIM Masashi Ando, Masaaki Endo, Shôgo Furuya, Makiko Futaki, Kuniyuki Ishii, Megumi Kagawa, Toshio Kawaguchi, Katsuya Kondô, Yoshifumi Kondô, Ken'ichi Konishi, Kitaro Kosaka, Masaru Matsuse, Hiroko Minowa, Noriko Moritomo, Takehiro Noda, Hiroaki Noguchi, Shinji Otsuka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Koichi Suenaga, Teiichi Takiguchi, Osamu Tanabe, Atsuko Tanaka, Nobuo Tomizawa, Kazuhide Tomonaga, Hirômi Yamakawa, Ken'ichi Yoshida, Hideaki Yoshio

SOUND Hisanori Ooshiro

Locarno (Manga Impact – The World of Japanese Animation)

Synopsis

As the human city development encroaches on the raccoon population’s forest and meadow habitat, the raccoons find themselves faced with the very real possibility of extinction. In response, the raccoons engage in a desperate struggle to stop the construction and preserve their home. –IMDb

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Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata (born October 29, 1935) is one of the most famous directors of anime, or Japanese animated films.

Born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan, he is a long-term colleague of Miyazaki Hayao and co-head at Studio Ghibli. His four animated films at Studio Ghibli have spanned a remarkable range of genres: war-film (Grave of the Fireflies), romantic drama (Only Yesterday), comedy (My Neighbors the Yamadas) and ecological adventure (Pom-Poko). Of these Grave of the Fireflies, in particular, is widely considered among the greatest animated films ever made.

Graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1959, Takahata joined the newly-created Toei Douga animation company where a short time later he met Miyazaki, and also directed his first feature film Horus: Prince of the Sun. Ostracized within the company after the financial failure of the film (despite its artistic success), he and Miyazaki left in order to work together, and collaborated on many other films… read more

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Kiara

21Feb13

FAVOURITE!!! <3 I kinda don't know why...

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Adam W. Parker

19Feb13

interesting, but it could have done its business in half the 2 hour runtime

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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

31Dec12

I never thought I would shed tears for raccoons until I watched this movie. Okay, maybe there are a lot of raccoon testicles and wonky designs, but it's such a fun and charming feature! And it's so beautiful!

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CJ Roy

27Dec12

Man this movie gets one hell of a bad rap due to what I believe wacky animation, raccoon testicles, and heavy reliance on understanding Japanese culture (which I am missing). Yeah it is a bit long and unbalanced but it makes up for it with some of the most beautiful, honest emotional moments in the Ghibli catalogue.

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Our roundup of essays and articles on this film.

Ghibli Retrospective: The Kids Talk POM POKO

By Twitchfilm.com on March 27, 2012
Twitch is certainly not the youngest of movie websites, and a number of the writing staff have children that are old enough to understand and consume media in a way that is both raw and fresh, but also
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