Pom Poko

Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko

Japan

1994

119 Min

Color

Japanese

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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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

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

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

Director

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