Pom Poko (Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko?, lit. "Heisei-era Raccoon Canine Battle Ponpoko") is a 1994 Japanese animated comedy-drama dream movie directed by Isao Takahata as well as animated by Studio Ghibli.

Regular with Japanese folklore, the tanuki (Japanese raccoon canines, Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus) are represented as a highly sociable, naughty types, who are able to utilize "impression scientific research" to transform into almost anything, but as well fun-loving as well as well keen on delicious relieves to be a genuine danger-- unlike the kitsune (foxes) as well as other shape-shifters. Aesthetically, the tanuki in this film are depicted in three distinct ways at different times: as practical animals, as humanlike animals that periodically wear clothing, and as cartoon-like numbers based on the manga of Shigeru Sugiura (of which Takahata is a wonderful fan). They often assume their practical type when seen by human beings, their cartoon-like type when they are doing something outlandish or whimsical, and also their humanlike type in any way various other times.

Famous testicles are an indispensable component of tanuki mythology, as well as they are revealed and described throughout the movie, and also utilized often in their shape-shifting. This stays unchanged in the DVD launch, though the English dub (but not the subtitles) refers to them as "raccoon pouches". Likewise, in the English dub and also subtitles, the pets are never described as "raccoon pets", which is the more accurate English name for the tanuki, instead they are incorrectly described as just "raccoons".
The tale begins in late 1960s Japan. A team of tanuki are endangered by a gigantic rural development project called New Tama, in the Tama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo. The advancement is reducing right into their woodland habitat and also dividing their land. The story returns to in very early 1990s Japan, during the early years of the Heisei age. With minimal space and food lowering yearly, the tanuki start dealing with amongst themselves for the lessening sources, but at the prompting of the matriarch Oroku ("Old Fireball"), they make a decision to unify to stop the advancement.

Several tanuki lead the resistance, including the aggressive principal Gonta, the old guru Seizaemon, the wise-woman Oroku, and the young and resourceful Shoukichi. Using their impression abilities (which they must re-learn after having forgotten them), they organize a range of diversions consisting of commercial sabotage. These strikes harm as well as eliminate individuals, frightening building employees right into stopping, but more employees quickly replace them. In desperation, the tanuki send out messengers to seek help from different famous seniors from other regions.
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