Pom Poko
| Anime movie | |
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| title | Pom Poko |
| Original title | 平 成 狸 合 戦 ぽ ん ぽ こ |
| transcription | Heisei Tanuki alleys Pompoko |
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| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| Studio | Studio Ghibli |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Isao Takahata |
| script | Isao Takahata |
| production | Toshio Suzuki |
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Pom Poko ( Japanese 平 成 狸 合 戦 ぽ ん ぽ こ , Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pom Poko ; Eng. " The battle of the raccoon dogs in the Heisei period - Pom Poko ") is an anime film from 1994 based on a story by Kenji Miyazawa based. The idea for this film came from Hayao Miyazaki , directed by Isao Takahata , who also wrote the script. The film was produced by Studio Ghibli .
action
In the late 1960s, construction began on the suburb of Tama New Town in the Tama Hill Country near Tokyo . The Tama nature reserve has to give way to this development. This will soon be felt by the local raccoon dog population, whose food is becoming increasingly scarce. They split into two warring groups that are reconciled by the tribal elder Oroku. It reminds the warring parties that man is the real enemy who needs to be driven out.
Gonta, the leader of one of the "armies", wants to evict the people by force. With the help of their ability to transform themselves into objects or even people, the raccoon dogs provoke some accidents on the construction site, but they do not stop the work. The chief priest of the raccoon dogs, Tsurukami, sends two messengers to the most remote forest areas in Japan to receive tips from the local wise men on how to train magical powers, which the "urban" raccoon dogs have largely forgotten. For her part, Oroku tries to teach the boys these powers.
While these people in Tama with spirits led by the prudent Shokichi spook try scare, brings one of the messengers, Tamasaburo, three way from the South Island Shikoku with who want to help the raccoon dogs of Tama in their fight against the people. With their joint forces they stage a huge ghost parade ( Hyakki Yakō ) (including Japanese gods, Buddha, Tengu , the dragon Shenlong and Maneki-neko ), while one of the wise men, Gyobu, dies, so that they are broken off without result got to.
The operator of an amusement park claims he staged the parade as a publicity stunt. A fox - foxes ( kitsune ) as well as raccoon dogs also have the gift of transforming themselves into people - who works for him tries to get the raccoon dogs to work in human form for the amusement park so that they can survive. Instead, they use a magic trick to steal all of the amusement park's money.
After all, the raccoon dogs have to realize that they cannot do anything against the construction project. Gonta does not want to admit this and leads his troops into a battle against the people, in which he and all his followers die. The survivors are divided into two groups: some live on in human form, others try to make a living as raccoon dogs in a changed habitat. In the end, Shokichi, who lives as a human being, accidentally bumps into the leader of the free raccoon dogs Ponta and celebrates a happy festival with him in memory of their shared past.
Publications
The film was released in Japanese theaters on July 16, 1994, grossing approximately 2.63 billion yen . It was the most successful domestic film in Japan in 1994.
Internationally, however, the film received little attention. It was only when the Studio Ghibli films Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle were successful worldwide and attracted attention that the film was released in many countries. In Germany, Pom Poko was released on DVD on June 11, 2007 by Universum Anime .
reception
The film won several Japanese film awards. At the Mainichi Eiga Concours in 1995, the film was awarded the Great Animation Prize . At the presentation of the Japanese Academy Awards in the same year, he was awarded a special prize. Pom Poko was Japan's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the 1995 Academy Awards , but was ultimately not nominated.
Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements said the film was less universal compared to My Neighbor Totoro and would appear "ethnocentric" to some outsiders . The gags are based on Japanese history and folklore, the humor is "a little too rough" . The film is a "foreign language version of Watership Down (1978)" .
Christopher End wrote in the AnimaniA that the film would be emotionally close to My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's small delivery service , but that it would take on a much more serious tone despite the cartoon elements and musical interludes. "Even if the story doesn't come close to Takahata's masterpiece" The Last Fireflies "," Pom Poko "offers magical Ghibli entertainment for the whole family in terms of animation quality and quirkier characters."
literature
- Helen McCarthy: Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation . 1999
Web links
- Pom Poko in the Internet Movie Database (English)