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Pom Poko
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936175257
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
MPN: D25346D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Editorial Review:
Isao Takahata's outré ecological fable Pom Poko was the no. 1 domestic film in Japan in 1994, and the first animated feature to be submitted for the Oscar for Foreign Language Film. In 1967, the raccoons in the Tama Hills find their homes are threatened with destruction when developers turn the rural area into suburbs. Under the leadership of their tribal elders the animals fight back with every resource at their disposal. Raccoons are shape-shifters in Japanese folk tales, and the members of this tribe can transform into objects, other creatures and even humans.
Unlike Takahata's deeply moving The Grave of the Fireflies, Pom Poko (the sound made by thumping the tummy of a comfortably full raccoon) is a broad comedy. The raccoons' efforts to understand humans, their evocations of traditional ghost stories to frighten construction crews, and their internecine quarrels offers plenty of laughs. But the story rambles, and the characters lack the depth needed to sustain the audience's interest until the film's belated, downbeat conclusion. The extras include Takahata's storyboards, which are interesting, but lack the magic of Hayao Miyazaki's drawings on other Studio Ghibli discs. Note: male raccoons have prominent testicles, which are shown in Japanese art, including the designs for Pom Poko. When the characters grow desperate, they swell their scrotums to enormous size and use them as weapons. (Rated PG, Parental Guidance Suggested: violence, scary images and thematic elements) --Charles Solomon
Walt Disney Home Entertainment Presents A Studio Ghibli Film. POM POKO is a tale of the clash between modern civilization and the natural world. The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans. In often hilarious ways, the Raccoons use their powers to try to scare off the advancement of civilization. But will it be enough? Or will the Raccoons learn how to live in balance with the modern world? Celebrate the magic of the forest and the beauty of the creatures who live among us in POM POKO — on DVD for the first time ever.~(c)1994 Hatake Jimusho · GNH (c)Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.~~
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Rich in Japanese folktales, songs and ghost stories!!
For those familiar with Japanese culture, folktales, traditional children's songs and ghost stories, you will be delighted with the homage, the references and the "in jokes." The movie is rich in these references and this is it's most outstanding feature, not the enlarged [...] (which by the way are a traditional mythic feature of tanuki). For the uninitiated, check out "Japanese Ghost Stories" by Lafcadio Hearn, --- the illustrations of woodblock prints from the Edo period alone will demonstrate ... Read More
Rating: - A fantasy that gets real. (Volume 1: Part 8/9)*
After seeing a film such as Ocean Waves (I Can Hear The Sea) I was really in the mood get back into the fantasy mode of Ghibli. Ocean Waves is a brilliant real story about 3 friends growing up together and experiencing life head on. It can be awkward and sometimes confusing, but in the end you learn to cope and move forward. *Ocean Waves is not up for release yet so that was my brief review)
Then, we have 'Pom Poko'. It is the story of racoons with the ability to transform into many things ... Read More
Rating: - Morals and Music
This Ghibli film, Pom Poko, is directed by Isao Takahata. It features raccoons who find their forests shrinking, due to human expansion, and fight to retain what is left. It is a typical Ghibli film that includes multiple flight scenes (pocket-parachutes, and transformation parade), an environmental message, and numerous fantasy elements.
Pom Poko has a documentary feeling attached. It opens with commentary from some of it's raccoon characters. It then continues with a narrator through ... Read More
Rating: - Fun, cute and sad
This movie is about a lot more than just cute little Raccoons, it deals with the destruction of the environment and the effect on the animals that inhabit it. Its a fun cute movie, with sad bottom line though.
Rating: - Blends Animated Cuteness, Magic, And Harsh Realism In Another Studio Ghibli Masterpiece
"Pom Poko", aka "The Raccoon War", is the story of various clans of raccoons in a region of Japan who, pressed for space and food as their world continues to disappear under the wheels of human 'progress', take to fighting each other for survival and later teaming up to resist the human encroachment. These raccoons morph back and forth from realistic-looking quadrupeds to stubby, Ewok-like bipeds with clothes and primitive weapons as the story demands, and it never seems the least contrived. More advanced ... Read More
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