Pom Poko

Name: Pom Poko
Genre: Fantasy, Animated, Comedy
Released: 2025-04-23
Cast: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki, Nijiko Kiyokawa

When urban civilization begins to expand near the previously untouched landscape, the local raccoons declare war on it. Fortunately, they are both clever and gifted with the ability to transform themselves into any person or thing, which they use in a guerrilla fight against developers and construction workers. But will it work on people who have stopped believing in magic?

Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko

Isao Takahata

Japan 1994

Japanese

Czech

119 min.

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This film is available until 31. 7. 2028 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

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As civilisation draws ever nearer to their idyllic forest home, a group of mischievous Japanese tanuki raccoons try to scare humans away. But they soon discover that humans are not their only rivals in the struggle for their age-old territory. Released in 1994 as the Japanese economy slumped, but looking back to the sixties construction boom in Tokyo’s Tama Hills, Pom Poko questions the money-grabbing ethics of yuppie Japan, and mourns the loss of the countryside. Drawing on Japanese myths and legends, writer and director Isao Takahata presents a satirical view of woodland spirits using every available magical ruse to take on modern developers: including transformations, sabotage and trickery. Pom Poko is a unique window into Japanese folklore, a comedy of modern failings, and an elegiac tale of unlikely heroes fighting insurmountable odds.

Credits

Director: Isao Takahata

Screenplay: Isao Takahata

Cinematography: Atsushi Okui

Music: Ryôjirô Furusawa, Masaru Gotô, Kôryû, Yôko Ono, Shang Shang Typhoon, Manto Watanobe

Sound: Hisashi Yamamoto, Hisanori Ôshiro

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Producer: Toshio Suzuki, Ned Lott, Hideo Ogata, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Tatsumi Yamashita

Cast: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shigeru Izumiya, Gannosuke Ashiya, Takehiro Murata, Beichô Katsura, Bunshi Katsura VI

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