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Pom Poko (Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, lit. ' Heisei -era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko ' ) is a 1994 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Isao Takahata , animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten , Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo , and distributed by Toho .
The first Studio Ghibli film to use computer graphics: Pom Poko The first Miyazaki feature to use computer graphics, and the first Studio Ghibli film to use digital coloring ; the first animated feature in Japan's history to gross more than 10 billion yen at the box office and the first animated film ever to win a National Academy Award for ...
Pom Poko: Narrator, Second Drunk 1995 Napoleon: Snake, Frill-Necked Lizard, Turtle [25] 1996 Space Jam: Pepé Le Pew [25] All Dogs Go to Heaven 2: Lost & Found Officer [25] 1999 Wakko's Wish: The Brain, Squit [25] Nominated – Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production: The Chimp Channel: Harry Waller, Bernard Mogge: The Movie: Tiny 2000
Pom Poko goes beyond an overt division of animals on one side and humans on the other, as deforestation forces the tanukis to try to fit in to city life, which the cunning creatures do with some success. Taking human form, they try to assimilate, even though they are tempted to run away at every turn.
Passing reference to this story occurs in the animated film Pom Poko (1994, Studio Ghibli). In the Naruto series, Shukaku, the One-Tail, who is modeled after a tanuki, is mentioned to have originally been sealed into a teapot. It is revealed later that his former jinchūriki (human container) was an old man named Bunbuku.
Ponpoko (Japanese: ポンポコ) is a fixed screen platform game developed and published by Sigma Enterprises. It was released in arcades in Japan in November 1982. [1] As a Japanese raccoon dog which can jump and climb ladders, the goal is to collect all of the fruits and vegetables in each level.
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), [1] also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, タヌキ), [2] is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It is one of two species in the genus Nyctereutes, alongside the common raccoon dog (N. procyonoides), [3] of which it was traditionally thought to be a subspecies (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus).
Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama".. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki, written during the Nara period, is the passages "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu ...