Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko
Réalisation:
Isao TakahataScénario:
Isao TakahataPhotographie:
Atsushi OkuiActeurs·trices:
Takehiro Murata, Megumi Hayashibara, Tomokazu Seki, Rei Sakuma, 清川虹子, Yumi Kuroda, Hiroko Suzuki, Ako Mayama, Yuzuru Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Kishino (plus)Résumés(1)
As civilisation draws ever nearer to their idyllic forest home, a group of mischievous Japanese tanuki raccoons try to scare humans away. But they soon discover that man is not their only rival in the struggle for their age-old territory. Released in 1994 as the Japanese economy slumped, but looking back to the sixties construction boom in Tokyo's Tama Hills, Pom Poko questions the money-grabbing ethics of yuppie Japan, and mourns the loss of the countryside. Drawing on Japanese myths and legends, writer and director Isao Takahata presents a satirical view of woodland spirits using every available magical ruse to take on the modern developers: including transformations, sabotage and trickery. (StudioCanal)
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Pom Poko is another production by Studio Ghibli that dazzled me, and in the first few minutes, the opening song put a genuine smile on my face. I managed to keep that smile on my face for most of the movie, and sometimes I even gave a hearty laugh. The animation is simply wonderful, and the narrative rolls along at a relaxing pace and is quite witty, and so are the main protagonists, who I thought were pretty good. Even though they are fighting a brave but not very equal battle with people, you cannot help but root for them.
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