![]() Another group desperately attempts to gain media attention through television appearances to plead their case against the habitat's destruction. One group led by Gonta takes the route of eco-terrorism, holding off workers until they are wiped out in a pitched battle with the police, and finally killed in a last desperate attempt to block traffic while disguised as a tsurube-otoshi. With this setback, the unity of the tanuki finally fails and they break up into smaller groups, each following a different strategy. The strain of the massive illusion kills one of the elders and his spirit is lifted up in a raigō, and the effort seems wasted when the owner of a nearby theme park takes credit for the parade, claiming it was a publicity stunt. In an effort at re-establishing respect for the supernatural, the group stages a massive "ghost parade" to make the humans think the town is haunted. The tanukis call the shapeshifting elders to help deal with the humans.Īfter several years, Tamasaburō returns bringing a trio of elders from the distant island of Shikoku, where development is not a problem and the tanuki are still worshipped. In desperation, the tanuki send out messengers to seek help from various legendary elders from other regions. 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. The tanukis lived a life of bliss and partying before the humans arrived. It is broadcast once every few years on Nippon Television's Friday Road SHOW! programming block. The film was released as part of the Ghibli ga Ippai COLLECTION series and shipped 400,000 units in Japan. It won the 49th Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film and the Grand Prix of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival Feature Film in 1995. The film earned ¥2.6 billion in the Japanese box office in 1994. Its poster's catchphrase is "Even raccoon dogs are doing their best." (タヌキだってがんばってるんだよォ), which was coined by Shigesato Itoi. This was the first Ghibli film to use CG effects. ![]() The story is set in Tama New Town where racoon dogs form a resistance against the encroaching humans. Takahata initially tried to adapt the 12th century war epic The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari), but opted to instead write an original scenario using his co-founders' original story about raccoon dogs. The film was first conceptualized by Ghibli co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki, who later decided to hand the project to Isao Takahata. Specifically, the phrase started as a jocular explanation of meditative percussion at Shōjō-ji taken up in a 1919 poem by Ujō Noguchi, which became a popular nursery rhyme recorded in 1925. The phrase Pom Poko in the title refers to the sound of bake-danuki drumming their own bellies as a form of tanuki-bayashi. ![]() This is the first feature film produced at Ghibli's new animation studio at Koganei, Tokyo, and is the first original work written and directed by Isao Takahata. It was distributed by Toho and released on July 16, 1994. Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Pom Poko, also known as The Raccoon War) is an animated comedy-drama film animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo. ($26.3 million) Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko?, lit.
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