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Pom Poko (movie)

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Alternative title:
Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko (Japanese)
Pom Poko - A tanukik birodalma
Pompoko (French)
Pompoko - Los mapaches (Spanish)
Pompoko: la Guerra de los Mapaches (Spanish)
Szopy w natarciu (Polish)
Помпоко: Война тануки (Russian)
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ (Japanese)
平成狸合戰 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: None 
Plot Summary: Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.
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User Ratings: 1185 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 94 votes (sub:56, dub:29, raw:2, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 241 votes (sub:151, dub:69, raw:5, edit.dub:2, ?:1, others:13
4 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 German dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Polish edited dub
)
 Very good: 307 votes (sub:203, dub:82, raw:6, ?:2, others:14
5 Spanish subtitled
2 German dubbed
2 French subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian edited dub
)
 Good: 260 votes (sub:154, dub:77, ?:3, raw:1, others:25
6 German dubbed
5 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
2 Dutch subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Mandarin dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Russian dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Decent: 134 votes (sub:77, dub:50, edit.dub:1, others:6
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Mandarin subtitled
)
 So-so: 63 votes (sub:36, dub:24, raw:1, others:2
1 German dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 33 votes (sub:20, dub:11, ?:1, edit.dub:1)
 Weak: 24 votes (sub:15, dub:8, raw:1)
 Bad: 18 votes (sub:9, dub:8, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Awful: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (dub:5)
Seen in part or in whole by 1886 users, rank: #637 (of 9748)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.384 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.8189, rank: #2283 (of 9894)
Weighted mean: 7.337 (Good+), rank: #2278 (of 9894) (seen all: 7.38 / seen some: 6.28 / won't finish: 2.66)
Bayesian estimate: 7.339 (Good+), rank: #2018 (of 7487)
Running time: 118 minutes
Vintage:
1994-06-13
2013-12-18 (Señal Colombia - Colombia)
Premiere date:
1994-07-16 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 15
Ending Theme:
"Itsu demo Dare ka ga (いつでも誰かが; Always, someone is...)" by Shang Shang Typhoon
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
Has a PG rating in the US for "violence, scary images, and thematic elements." In Canada it's rated G.
Review:
Pom Poko (Feb 10, 2015)
News: Show:
Pom Poko on UK TV (Nov 13, 2006)
Pom Poko Goes HD (Oct 23, 2006)
Late Night Ghibli on TCM (Apr 2, 2006)
Ghibli Releases (May 8, 2005)
R3 Ghibli Boxed Set (Jul 21, 2004)
More Ghibli in November (Apr 24, 2004)
Isao Takahata in LA (Apr 14, 2004)
Ghibli DVDs Coming to UK (Feb 26, 2003)
Ghibli Releases (Apr 22, 2002)
Pompoko Article (Mar 28, 2002)
Mononoke Hime DVD Update (Jul 9, 2000)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Pom Poko (BD+DVD) 2015-02-03 (from $39.98)
    Pom Poko (BD+DVD) 2018-02-06 (from $19.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    Pom Poko (DVD) 2005-08-16 (from $24.41)
    Pom Poko (DVD) 2018-02-06 (from $13.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Isao Takahata
Screenplay: Isao Takahata
Original author: Kenji Miyazawa ("Futago no Hoshi Sakusen")
Original story: Isao Takahata
Character Design: Shinji Ōtsuka
Art Director: Kazuo Oga
Animation Director: Shinji Ōtsuka
Sound Director: Yasuo Uragami
Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui
Producer: Toshio Suzuki

Advertising Producer: Masaya Tokuyama
Animation Supervisor:
Hiroko Minowa (assistant)
Megumi Kagawa
Shinji Ōtsuka
Toshio Kawaguchi (assistant)
Assistant Director:
Masahiko Otsuka
Shinichi Matsumi
Associate Executive Producer:
Hideo Ogata
Tatsumi Yamashita
Associate Production Manager: Toshiyuki Kawabata
Cel Check: Akiko Ono
Color design: Michiyo Yasuda
Editing: Takeshi Seyama
Editing Assistant:
Hiroshi Adachi
Keiko Mizuta
Image Building: Yoshiyuki Momose
Ink & Paint:
Akiko Aihara (Trace Studio M)
Chiemi Miyamoto (Studio KILLY)
Chiyomi Morisawa (Studio KILLY)
Eiko Fukuma (IM Studio)
Emiko Motohashi (Trace Studio M)
Fumie Mukai (Studio KILLY)
Fumiko Watanabe (Trace Studio M)
Hiroko Nishizawa (Studio KILLY)
Hitomi Nakahata (IM Studio)
Izumi Maeno (Trace Studio M)
Junko Kanauchi (Trace Studio M)
Kanako Moriya
Kazuhiro Hirabayashi (Studio KILLY)
Kazumi Furusawa (IM Studio)
Kazuo Kobayashi (IM Studio)
Keiko Hara (IM Studio)
Kiyoko Yoshino (Studio AD)
Mariko Konuma (IM Studio)
Masayo Iseki
Masayo Sakai (Studio KILLY)
Mayumi Sawame (Studio AD)
Michiko Shibata (IM Studio)
Michiyo Iseda (IM Studio)
Minako Oshiro
Naomi Atsuta
Naomi Mori
Noriko Ogawa
Reiko Daigo (Trace Studio M)
Sayoko Yoshida (Trace Studio M)
Shizue Shibusawa (Studio AD)
Takemi Yoshida (Studio KILLY)
Tatsuko Kubota (Studio KILLY)
Tatsumi Yukiwaki (Studio KILLY)
Terumi Narita (IM Studio)
Tetsuko Iijima (IM Studio)
Tomiko Kojima (Studio AD)
Tomomi Nakazato (Studio KILLY)
Tsunetaka Arai (Studio KILLY)
Wakako Sugiyama (Trace Studio M)
Yasuyo Takayama (IM Studio)
Yoko Tanida (IM Studio)
Yukie Ootsukizawa
Yuriko Katayama
Yuriko Kudo (Studio KILLY)
Ink & Paint Supervisor: Michiyo Yasuda
Merchandising Development:
Kazumi Inaki
Koichi Asano
Tomomi Imai
Original Lyrics: Ujo Noguchi ("Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi")
Planning: Hayao Miyazaki
Production Committee:
Akio Ichimura (Studio Ghibli)
Akira Kaneko (Tokuma Shoten)
Hatsuhiko Sawada (Hakuhodo)
Hidehiko Takei (NTV)
Hiroshi Morie (Hakuhodo)
Hiroshi Takahashi (NTV)
Hisae Kawai (Tokuma Shoten)
Hisaomi Saito (Hakuhodo)
Masahiko Nishizawa (Tokuma Shoten)
Naoya Fujimaki (Hakuhodo)
Nobuko Suzuki (Hakuhodo)
Ryoko Tsutsui (Tokuma Shoten)
Seiji Okuda (NTV)
Seiji Urushido (NTV)
Shigeru Kobayashi (Studio Ghibli)
Shigeru Ohno (Hakuhodo)
Shokichi Arai (Studio Ghibli)
Sue Fujimoto (NTV)
Tetsuhiko Yoshida (Tokuma Shoten)
Tomoki Horaguchi (Studio Ghibli)
Toshio Hagiwara (NTV)
Tsutomu Ōtsuka (Tokuma Shoten)
Yoshiko Yamauchi (Studio Ghibli)
Yukari Yanagisawa (Studio Ghibli)
Production Design: Kazuo Oga
Production manager: Nozomu Takahashi
Publishing Development: Hirobumi Umigishi
Sound Adjustment: Hisanori Ōshiro
Sound Effects: Mitsuru Kashiwabara
Technical Cooperation:
Masanori Michiie
Mikio Mori (Continental Far East, Inc.)
Yoshiro Saito
Theme Song Composition:
KORYU (END)
Yoko Ino ("Asia no Kono Machi de")
Theme Song Lyrics: KORYU (Insert + END)
Theme Song Performance: Shang Shang Typhoon (Insert + END)
Visual Design: Yoshiyuki Momose
Makoto Nonomura as Shoukichi
Shinchou Kokontei as Narrator
Yuriko Ishida as Okiyo

Akira Fukuzawa as Ryutarou
Beichou Katsura as Rokudaime Kinchou
Bunshi Katsura as Tasaburou Hage-tanuki
Gannosuke Ashiya as Inugami-gyoubu
Kobuhei Hayashiya as Ponkichi
Kosan Yanagiya as Tsurukame-oshou
Nijiko Kiyokawa as Oroku-baba
Norihei Miki as Seizaemon
Shigeru Izumiya as Gonta
Takehiro Murata as Bunta
Yorie Yamashita as Otama

Akira Kamiya as Tamasanro
Atsuko Mine as Tanuki matriarch
Eiko Kodama as Younger sister
Hajime Koseki as Man A at construction shed
Hiroaki Ishikawa as Tanuki bodyguard B
Hiroko Suzuki as Female tanuki
Hisao Egawa as Youjinbou
Junichi Sugawara as Tanuki bodyguard A
Katsuhiro Masukata as TV announcer
Kazuhiko Kishino as Senior police officer
Kōichi Kitamura as Land worker
Makiko Ishikawa as TV announcer
Masahiro Hosaka as TV announcer
Masanobu Iwakuma as TV announcer
Megumi Hayashibara as Sasuke
Minako Nagai as TV announcer
Minoru Yada as Food stand customer A
Naoki Bandō as Male tanuki A
Naruhito Iguchi as Broadcaster
Osamu Katō as Hayashi-san
Rei Sakuma as Singing female tanuki
Reina Ezaki as Transformed child B
Rin Mizuhara as Ofuku
Sawako Agawa as Broadcaster
Shiho Nagai as Hanako
Tomohiro Nishimura as Tanuki patriarch
Tomokazu Seki as Male tanuki B
Toshimi Ashizawa as TV announcer
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Police officer
Yōsuke Naka as Food stand customer B
Yūki Inaba as Transformed child A
Yumi Kuroda as Koharu
Yuu Hayashi as Elder brother
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Mizuki-sensei
Japanese companies
Audio Production: Audio Planning U
Computer Graphics: NTV Computer Graphics Division
Film Developing: Imagica
Inbetween / Clean-up Animation: Telecom Animation Film
Key Animation: Telecom Animation Film
Recording Studio: APU Studio
Sound Effects: VOX
Special Media Support: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Special Support: Japan Art Fund
Supporting Recording Studio: NICHIEI Rokuon Sound Forum
Technical Cooperation:
Continental Far East Inc.
MURAO
Stac
English cast
English staff
Translation: Jim Hubbert
Producer: Ned Lott

Color Timing: Chris DeLaGuardia
Dialogue Recording:
Bill Komar
Cecilia Perna
Negative Cutting: Rick MacKay
Post-Production Coordinator: Cory Hansen
Post-Production Manager: David Candiff
Re-Recording Mixing: Tom Dahl
Supervising ADR Editor: Petra Bach
English companies
ADR Production: Buena Vista Sound Services
Broadcaster: Turner Classic Movies
Distributor:
GKIDS
Madman Entertainment (Australia)
Optimum Releasing (UK)
Shout! Factory (2018)
Internet Streaming:
HBO Max (USA)
Netflix (Worldwide, excl. USA and Japan)
Negative Cutting: Buena Vista Negative Cutting
Prints: Technicolor
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Jean-Marc Pannetier
Guillaume Orsat as Shokichi

Adrien Antoine as Tamasaburô
Barbara Tissier as Otama
Daniel Lafourcade as Ryûtarô
François Siener as Gonta
Guillame Orsat as Shokichi
Laura Blanc as Koharu
Marc Alfos as Chef des travaux
Mathias Kozlowski as le présentateur du journal
Michel Ruhl as Kincho
Patrick Floersheim as Narrateur
Patrick Mancini as Ponkichi
Perette Pradier as Oroku
Régis Lang as Seizaemon
René Lafleur as Hage
Virginie Méry as Kiyo

French companies
Broadcaster:
Canal + (from December 2007)
Canal + Family (from June 2008)
Ciné Cinema Famiz (from January 2009)
Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Alfonso Laguna (Spain dub)
Dubbing Director: Alex De Porrata (Catalan dub)
Translation:
Bárbara Pesquer (Spain dub)
Joaquim Toset (Catalan dub)
ADR Script: Alfonso Laguna (Spain dub)
Executive producer: Hilel Chelminsky (Zima Entertainment)
Alex De Porrata as Shokichi (Catalan dub)
Alfonso Laguna as Narrator (Spain dub)
Héctor Rocha as Shoukichi (Mexican dub)
Jesús Alberto Pinillos as Shoukichi (Spain dub)
Jordi Salas as Narrador (Catalan dub)

Carlos Becerril as Tsurukame-oshou (Mexican dub)
Clemen Larumbe as Oroku-baba (Mexican dub)
David Blanquer as Seizaemon (Catalan dub)
Eduardo Moreno as Surugame (Spain dub)
Fernando Serna as Tamasaburo (Spain dub)
Fran Jimenez as Ryutarou (Spain dub)
Francisco Javier Martínez as Seizaemon (Spain dub)
Joan Sanz as Tsukurame (Catalan dub)
Jordi Estupiñá as Bunta (Spain dub)
Luis Miguel Cajal as Ponkichi (Spain dub)
María Romeu as Kiyo (Catalan dub)
María Jesús Varona as Otama (Spain dub)
Marisa Marco as Oroku (Spain dub)
Mayte Supervia as Oroku (Catalan dub)
Narcís Carreras as Hage (Catalan dub)
Pedro Tena as Gonta (Spain dub)
Toni Astigarraga as Gonta (Catalan dub)
Xavier Castañer as Ponkichi (Catalan dub)

Albert Castaño as Bunta (Catalan dub)
Alfonso Mendiguchía as Guest (Spain dub)
Ana María Camps as Otama (Catalan dub)
Borja Peña as Host (Spain dub)
Elena Rubio as
Koharu (Catalan dub)
Sasuke (Catalan dub)
Emma Cifuentes as Woman 1 (Spain dub)
Eric Suñén as
Hayashi (Catalan dub)
Ryutaro (Catalan dub)
Idoia Fernández as Koharu (Spain dub)
Ivan Canovas as Kincho (Catalan dub)
Ivan Murray as Tamasaburo (Catalan dub)
Jordi Salas as Gyobu (Catalan dub)
Luis Mas as Kincho Daimyioujin (Spain dub)
Marta García Gallego as Initial narration (Spain dub)
Pilar Coronado as Sasuke (Spain dub)
Rafael Calvo Suárez as Bunta (Catalan dub)
Roberto Cuenca Martínez as Yashimano Hage (Spain dub)
Sonia Vázquez as Child (Spain dub)

Carmen Ambrós (Catalan dub)
Eli Serra (Catalan dub)
Emma Cifuentes (Spain dub)
Sonia Vázquez (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
Canal CinemaPlus (Latin America)
Canal MAX (Latin America)
Canal UCR
Canal+ Xtra (Spain)
Cinema + (Colombia)
HBO (Latin America)
HBO Latin America
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Distributor: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Dubbing Studio:
103 Todd-Ao Estudios (Spain dub)
CYO Studios (Catalan dub)
DVD Distribution: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Internet Streaming:
Netflix
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Licensed by:
Aurum Producciones (Spain)
Zima Entertainment (Mexico)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Carlo Valli as Narratore
Gemma Donati as Okiyo
Paolo Vivio as Shoukichi

Gabriele Patriarca as Ponkichi
Gianluca Crisafi as Bunta
Giorgio Favretto as Inugami Gyobu
Marco De Risi as Gonta
Marco Vivio as Tamasaburo
Marzia Ubaldi as Fireball Oroku
Micaela Incitti as Otama
Oreste Baldini as Ryutaru
Paolo Lombardi as Kinchou VI
Saverio Moriones as Seizaemon

Agnese Marteddu as Ghost (female)
Alessandro Pala as Anchorman 2
Ambrogio Colombo as Wonderland President
Dante Biagioni as Bonzo Tsurugame
Edoardo Nordio as Anchorman 1
Enzo Garinei as Yashimano Hage
Eva Padoan as Hokaru
Giancarlo Padoan as Politician
Gianfranco Miranda as Correspondent TV
Giulia Tarquini as Hanako
Goffredo Matassi as Customer 1
Manfredi Aliquò as Hayashi
Marco Baroni as Policeman
Nicola Braile as Announcer
Oliviero Dinelli as Suzuki
Omar Vitelli as Sasuke
Pieraldo Ferrante as Customer 2
Tito Marteddu as Ghost (male)

Italian companies
Distributor: Lucky Red
Dubbing: TECHNICOLOR SPA
Internet Streaming: Mediaset Infinity
German staff
German cast
(none)
Mike Carl as Shokichi
Tatjana Pokorny as Okiyo
Walter von Hauff as Narrator

Anita Höfer as Oroku
Claus-Peter Damitz as Ryutaro
Manfred Erdmann as Seizaemon
Norbert Gastell as Inugami Gyobu
Oliver Mink as Gonta
Stefan Günther as Ponta
Werner Uschkurat as Tsurogame
Willi Röbke as Rokudaime Kinchou

Claus-Peter Damitz as Hayashi
Ulrich Frank as Yashimano Hage
German companies
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Dutch cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Distributor: Monolith Films
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Canal MAX (subtituled)
Distributor: Outsider Films (Portugal)
Portuguese cast
(none)
Swedish staff
Swedish companies
(none)
Distributor: Pan Vision
Swedish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Distributor: Deltamac Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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