1994 · animation · family
Pom Poko
Directed by Isao Takahata1h 59m1994
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.
Our read: Pom Poko (1994) reads as a warm, steady, surreal animation · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured animation / family, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- surreal
- signature
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