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Pom Poko

Pom Poko

Nippon Television Network | Studio Ghibli | Tokuma Shoten (1994)
DVD
PG (Parental Guidance)
5060034573326
Anime | Comedy | Family
Japan | Japanese | Color | 01:55

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 man is not their only rival 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.


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Shinchô Kokontei Narrator
Makoto Nonomura Shôkichi
Yuriko Ishida Okiyo
Norihei Miki Seizaemon
Nijiko Kiyokawa Fireball Oroku
Shigeru Izumiya Gonta
Gannosuke Ashiya Inugami Gyobu
Takehiro Murata Bunta
Beichô Katsura Kinchô Daimyôjin the Sixth
Sanshi Katsura Yashimano Hage
Kosan Yanagiya Abbot Tsurugame
Akira Kamiya Tamasaburô
Rei Sakuma
Tomokazu Seki Male Tanuki B
Minoru Yada
Yorie Yamashita
Megumi Hayashibara Sasuke
Rin Mizuhara Ofuku
Jonathan Taylor Thomas Shokichi
Clancy Brown Gonta
J.K. Simmons Seizaemon
Tress MacNeille Oroku
Kevin Michael Richardson Bunta
John Di Maggio Ryûtarô
Andre Stojka Osho

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Edition details

Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 1
Layers Single side, Single layer
Regions Region 2

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