Pom Poko

German dubbing

• Walter von Hauff: narrator
• Anita Höfer: Oruku
• Mike Carl: Shokichi
• Stefan Günther: Ponta
• Werner Uschkurat: Tsurogame
• Oliver Mink: Gonta
• Tatjana Pokorny: Onkyo
• Manfred Erdmann: Leader Blue
• Norbert Gastell: Inugami Gyobu

Pom Poko (Japanese平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Heisei Tanuki Pom Poko streets; German "The Battle of raccoon dogs in the Heisei era - 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 and directed by Isao Takahata, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Studio Ghibli.

Action

In the late sixties, the construction of the suburban settlement in Tama Tama New Town Hill Country is started in around Tokyo. The nature reserve Tama must give this development. That will soon get to experience the local raccoon dog population whose food is becoming increasingly scarce. They are divided into two warring groups, which are reconciled with each other by the tribal elders Oroku. She reminded the warring parties that man is the real enemy that needs to be distribute.

Gonta, the leader of the " armies " will, displace people by force. With the help of their ability to transform into objects or even people who raccoon dogs provoke some accidents on the job site, but not stop the work. The high priest of raccoon dogs, Tsurukami, sent two messengers to the most remote forest areas of Japan to obtain from the local wise tips for exercising magical powers, which have the " urban " raccoon dogs largely forgotten. Oroku tried in turn to teach the boys these forces.

While these under the direction of the Stoic Shokichi people try instill in Tama with Geisterspuk fear brings one of the messengers, Tamasaburo, three way from the South Island of Shikoku, wishing to help the raccoon dogs of Tama in their fight against the humans. With their combined forces they stage a massive parade spirits ( Hyakki Yakō ), while the one of the ways Gyobu dies, so they must be terminated without result.

The operator of an amusement park claims to have staged the parade as a publicity stunt. A fox - foxes ( kitsune ) have next to raccoon dogs also the gift to turn into humans - who works for him, the raccoon dog tries to get them to work in human form for the amusement park, so they can survive. Instead, they steal through a magic trick all the money of the amusement park.

Finally, the raccoon dogs need to realize that they can not do anything against the construction project. Gonta refuses to acknowledge this and will lead his troops into battle against the people, when he and all his followers die. The survivors are divided into two groups: the one live on in human form, the other trying to find a raccoon dog to make a living in an altered habitat. At the end of living as a human Shokichi stumbles along with the leader of the free raccoon dogs Ponta and celebrates with him a joyful celebration in memory of the shared past.

Publications

The film was released on 16 July 1994, the Japanese theaters, where he played an approximately 2.63 billion yen. He was thus the most successful domestic film in Japan in 1994.

Internationally, the film was, however, received little attention. Only when the Studio Ghibli films were Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle Country worldwide success and attracted attention, the film was released in many countries. In Germany Pom Poko was released on June 11, 2007 at Universum Anime on DVD.

Reception

The film won several Japanese film awards. When Mainichi Eiga Concours 1995, they recorded the movie with the great animation price. At the ceremony of the Japanese Academy Awards in the same year they named him a special prize. Pom Poko was Japan's submission to a nomination for " Best Foreign Film " at the Oscar ceremony in 1995, but was ultimately not nominated.

Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements felt that the film was compared with My Neighbor Totoro less universal and would work on some outsiders " ethnocentric ". The gags subject based on Japanese history and folklore, the humor was " a little rough ". The film was a " foreign-language version of Watership Down (1978 ) ".

Christopher wrote in the end AnimaniA, the film would indeed be close emotionally My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, but despite Cartoon bonds and musical numbers hit a much more serious tone. "Even if the story is not to Takahatas masterpiece" Grave of the Fireflies " zoom ranges, offers " Pom Poko " in terms of animation quality and verschrobenerer characters magical Ghibli entertainment for the whole family. "