These attacks injure and even kill people, frightening construction workers into quitting, but more workers immediately replace them. Using their illusion skills (which they must re-learn after having forgotten them), they stage a number of diversions including industrial sabotage. Several tanuki lead the resistance, including the aggressive chief Gonta, the old guru Seizaemon, the wise-woman Oroku, and the young and resourceful Shoukichi. With limited living space and food decreasing every year, the tanuki begin fighting among themselves for the diminishing resources, but at the urging of the matriarch Oroku, they decide to unify to stop the development. The story resumes in early 1990s Japan, during the early years of the Heisei era. The development is cutting into their forest habitat and dividing their land.
A group of tanuki are threatened by a gigantic suburban development project called New Tama, in the Tama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo. This remains unchanged in the DVD release, though the English dub (but not the subtitles) refers to them as "raccoon pouches". Prominent scrotums are an integral part of tanuki folklore, and they are shown and referred to throughout the film, and also used frequently in their shape-shifting. The phrase "Pom Poko" in the title refers to the sound of tanuki drumming their bellies, from a 1919 poem by Ujō Noguchi which became a popular children's song when it was set to music in 1925. They are a highly sociable, mischievous species, too fun-loving and fond of tasty treats to be a real threat – unlike kitsune (foxes) and other shape-shifters. In Japanese folklore, tanuki are considered to be magical creatures, capable of shape-shifting into people or other objects. " Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko") is a 1994 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Isao Takahata, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho.Īn environmental allegory, the story features tanuki, or Japanese raccoon dogs (incorrectly referred to as "raccoons" in the English dialog). Retrieved October 13, 2018.Pom Poko ( Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, lit.
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