Description
Pom Poko is a Japanese animated film about tanuki raccoons who try to scare humans away from their forest home. The film is set in the 1960s during Japan's construction boom, and questions the money-grabbing ethic of yuppie Japan. The film is also satirical, and features characters using every available magical ruse to take on modern developers.
From the acclaimed director of Grave Of The Fireflies.
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 ethic of yuppie Japan, and mourns the loss of the countryside. Drawing on Japanese myths and legends, writer and director Isao Takahara 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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