Pom poko / Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Hakuhodo and Studio Ghibli presents ; a Studio Ghibli production ; original story and screenplay by Isao Takahata ; produced by Toshio Suzuki ; directed by Isao Takahata.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: SF 18149 | GKIDSLanguage: English, French, Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English, French Publisher: [New York, New York] : GKIDS, [2018]Distributor: Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko (Motion picture)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Renowned animation director Isao Takahata spins this tale about a pitched battle between Japanese folkloric figures and housing developers at the edge of the Tokyo sprawl. The tanuki -- a badger-like creature often portrayed with big round eyes, a large Buddha-like belly, and long pendulous testicles resting by its feet -- is a beloved figure in Japanese myth, viewed both as a fun-loving bringer of fortune and a shape-changing trickster. Pom Poko opens with a group of tanuki fighting amongst each other for the increasingly scarce resources of their forest. Soon the group realizes that the real enemy is not their fellow tanuki, but suburban sprawl. Lead by their tough-talking matriarch, Oroku Baba, they use their lycanthropic abilities in a campaign to thwart the developers. Suddenly tarps fall on windshields and obstacles appear before bulldozers, sending the lot careening off the road and into a gulch. Unfortunately, the tide of progress is not that easily turned. Will the plucky tanuki keep their pastoral idyll? ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
DVD; NTSC, region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital 2.0 (English, Japanese and French).
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Japanese voice cast: Makoto Nonomura, Shinchou Kokontei, Yuriko Ishida, Akira Fukuzawa, Beichou Katsura, Bunshi Katsura, Gannosuke Ashiya, Shigeru Izumiya, Takehiro Murata, Nijiko Kiyokawa.
English version voice actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Clancy Brown, J.K. Simmons, Tress MacNeille, Kevin Michael Richardson, Marc Donato, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche.
"From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award-nominated director Isao Takahata, comes an action-packed ecological fable about the clash between nature and human civilization. The tanuki (raccoon dogs) of Tama Hills find their fun-loving community under attack when their quiet woodlands are threatened by encroaching developers looking to create still more houses and shopping malls. Desperate to survive, the tanuki band together and learn the ancient art of transformation, shape-shifting into a comical variety of humans and spirits as they undertake a last-ditch plan to scare away the humans and save their home, in this deeply affecting, funny and heartfelt look at what it means to live in the modern world."--Container.
Bonus features: original theatrical trailers.
Rating: PG; for violence, scary images, and thematic elements.
English, Japanese or French dialogue, with English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).