Pom Poko
1994 • Kyoto Animation
- Format
- MOVIE
- Aired
- 1994
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Kyoto Animation · Studio Ghibli · Daiei · Walt Disney Studios
- Genres
- Comedy · Drama · Fantasy
Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.
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Released in 1994, Pom Poko was directed by Isao Takahata for Studio Ghibli, not Kyoto Animation. The film is a poignant environmental fable centered on a community of shape-shifting tanuki who attempt to thwart the suburban development of their forest habitat. It serves as a critique of post-war Japanese urban expansion, blending whimsical folkloric mythology with a somber, documentary-like exploration of ecological loss.
The character designs were inspired by the works of manga artist Shigeru Sugiura, utilizing a distinct, illustrative style that deviates from the standard Ghibli aesthetic to reflect the traditional tanuki imagery of Japanese folklore. Upon its release, the film was noted for its bold narrative choices and its ability to balance comedy with an underlying sense of melancholy, ultimately becoming the highest-grossing domestic film in Japan for that year.
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