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FilmPG1994
Pom Poko
Directed by Isao Takahata
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. From TMDB
209 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 24, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Pom Poko is a 1994 adventure animation fantasy film, directed by Isao Takahata, starring Makoto Nonomura, Nijiko Kiyokawa and Shigeru Izumiya.
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60 of 209 · most liked firstPom Poko, an elaborate children’s fantasy about raccoons who cause traffic accidents with their scrotums, is an incredible movie
positive · AI labelView post →The funniest moment in dubs is when Disney tried to turn Pom Poko, a film about horny ecoterrorist tanuki with magic murder testicles, into a kids movie starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I talked about Ghibli's weirdest movie Pom Poko on the @japanonfilm.bsky.social podcast. japanonfilm.com/pompoko
neutral · AI labelView post →Pom Poko (1994) Lovely, deeply bizarre Studio Ghibli film about a bunch of raccoons with magic nut sacks. The English dub I saw years ago went to hilarious lengths to avoid any reference to raccoon testicles. Written and directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata - BOTD in 1935
neutral · AI labelView post →A conversation about Pom Poko (my favorite Ghibli movie; everyone should watch it) reminded me of the time I found myself inadvertently cosplaying as one of the tanuki elders.
positive · AI labelView post →Am I crazy....why do I feel like I never hear furries talk about Pom Poko or reference it or anything....its like such an insanely good mischievous goofy ghibli movie with so much testicle action
positive · AI labelView post →10 Favorite Animated Features -Akira -Spider-verse -Pom Poko -Wolf Children -A Silent Voice -The Transformers: The Movie (1986) -Howl’s Moving Castle -Your Name -Torrey Pines -How to Train Your Dragon
neutral · AI labelView post →Pom Poko is without a doubt Studio Ghibli’s most unhinged film ever and I had a blast from start to finish!
positive · AI labelView post →10 Favorite Animated Features Princess Mononoke (1997) Spirited Away (2001) Prince of Egypt (1998) Paprika (2006) The Return of the King (1980) A Bug's Life (1998) Sailor Moon S The Movie (1994) Pom Poko (1994) The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Digimon: The Movie (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →I like the movie Pom Poko, I just wish it were 10 times louder, told me exactly what to think at every moment, and undermined its sense of urgency with a bland message that doesn’t say much of anything.
negative · AI labelView post →....kitsune or, most frequently, mujina (magical badgers). Here is the link to the full nopperabo scene in the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko, which is a perfect example of how this yokai operates. vimeo.com/312456572 4/4
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s Friday! Some easy watches for the heatwave Scary Movie (2026) Pom Poko (1994) Spirited Away (2001) This Is The End (2013) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →Shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Pom Poko is my biggest comfort movie of all time. Never fails to make me laugh and cry. I, too, am a creature that just wants to eat and dance and sleep but instead is forced to be a person in a world increasingly alien.
positive · AI labelView post →second #letterboxdfriday of august and my #lastfourwatched were Pom Poko (1994) My Summer as a Goth (2019) The Invisible Man (2020) Jun Kasai Crazy Monkey (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →Today (November 26) is your last chance to catch Studio Ghibli's hidden gem POM POKO in theatres! Don't miss Isao Takahata's heartfelt film about the tanuki's story of survival in modern day society. brnw.ch/21wOxXg
neutral · AI labelView post →Back from Hoppers. Really loved it, it tugged on my heartstrings at times too. It sort of reminded me of the Ghibli film "Pom Poko" at times. Loved the creature design, particularly for reptiles and amphibians. Oh, and I'm glad they did what Bad Guys wouldn't by letting the villain get eaten, haha.
neutral · AI labelView post →**Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli** For Younger Kids: * My Neighbor Totoro * Ponyo * Spirited Away * The Secret World of Arietty * Kiki's Delivery Service * Pom Poko For maybe when they're getting older? * Howl's Moving Castle * The Wind Risees * Castle In The Sky * Princess Mononoke * Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Some other decent ones for kids of various ages: **Animated/Claymation** Series: * Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog * Alvin & The Chipmunks * Captain Planet and the Planeteers *…
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's what we've got cooking lately 🧑🍳 🔥 The first-ever physical media release of Arcane Season One, available in four editions! ✨ Studio Ghibli Fest, our annual rerelease of Ghibli films in theatres nationwide. Up next we've got POM POKO, THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA, and MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite Studio Ghibli movie? ^~^ I’ll start with mine, Pom Poko! 🦝
positive · AI labelView post →I don't think I've changed my mind on a film as much as Isao Takahata's Pom Poko. There's a LOT of movie and ideas in there, and the episodic, repetitive nature is tough the first watch, but now I believe it is necessary to achieve the feeling of the film. Here's 10 brilliant clips.(Spoilers)
positive · AI labelView post →Now seated for the 30th anniversary Ghibli Fest Screening of Pom Poko. Those raccoon scrotums are going to look enormous on the big screen #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →First movie of the year is a Ghibli I've not seen before. POM POKO.
neutral · AI labelView post →The scene where Miyazaki finds out Takahata passed away, immediately criticises his old friend and says Pom Poko was a boring movie ONLY to then discover via their producer that they screened the movie in Takahata’s memory and Miyazaki cried all the way through it? Just shoot me in the heart.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ranking the 70 Ghibli scenes that affect me the most / what I think is the best. I tried to have something from each film and spread them out, while still being honest. #68 is the testicle attack scene in Pom Poko.
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally got to see the movie Pom Poko, and it’s completely broken my brain 😵💫
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Pom Poko this week for the first time, went to the theater totally blind, and I did NOT expect the emphasis on tanuki balls lmaooo 😭 great film! but yeah that caught me off guard
positive · AI labelView post →Whisper of the Heart is beautiful. Cat Returns is worth it for Peter Boyle's dub alone. Only Yesterdays is a truly great film that has been underrated for so long it might be correctly rated now. Pom Poko is plodding & ridiculously Japanese but my daughter loves it. Ocean Waves is mid but not bad
neutral · AI labelView post →Semi-related, but the best animated movie about the environment would be Pom Poko (1994). Come for the tanuki testicle jokes, stay for the absolutely devastating existential dread.
positive · AI labelView post →We’re showing Porco Rosso at the Roxie starting May 25th! Come see my favorite Ghibli film (its between this and Pom Poko) roxie.com/film/porco-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is literally a shot from Pom Poko and Bluesky marked it as adult content lol. Studio Ghibli are an adult film company now. I guess it's not that different to most of my porn tbf
neutral · AI labelView post →The character design (of the various cats) in this movie is simply amazing. My second fav is Pom Poko. Only after these two some Miyazaki ones pop up.
positive · AI labelView post →I love POM POKO. Such an underrated Studio Ghibli film. Its ecological themes felt stronger than PRINCESS MONONOKE. Also, it's basically “what if we made eco-extremism the anime and then marketed it to children.”
positive · AI labelView post →This week's Sunday evening movie was Hoppers. I didn't really know what to expect but it was a fun low stakes family friendly movie. It's very Pixar - I'd describe it as Avatar meets Pom Poko. 🦫🦫🦫
neutral · AI labelView post →Comic creator Ryan Estrada makes his debut to discuss one of Studio Ghibli’s strangest films, 1994’s Pom Poko! We talk about the movie’s interesting structure, the deeper themes, and, of course, the power of raccoon balls. @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social japanonfilm.com/pompoko/
neutral · AI labelView post →My Ghibli movie ranking: 1st Howl's Moving Castle 2nd Castle in the Sky 3rd Kiki's Delivery 4th Spirited Away 5th Pom Poko
positive · AI labelView post →The funny thing is that this is a much more boring question because the clear bottom-of-the-barrel movie is Tales From Earthsea and anyone who says otherwise probably hasn't seen it yet. Ocean Waves? Nah, it's decent. Pom Poko? Nope, it's good. The Cat Returns? No, and also never speak to me again.
positive · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge - coca-cola Pom Poko (1994) Fun non-Miyazaki Ghibli film about shape shifting raccoon dogs @omacolt.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →For #GhibliSpotlight this week, let's look at Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ). The first original animated film to be both written and directed by Takahata Isao, it came out in Japanese cinemas on 16 July 1994. 🧵 [1/9]
neutral · AI labelView post →"I'd much rather be a pig than a fascist." Porco Rosso was delightful! I'm beginning to think this Miyazaki guy really likes airplanes. Next is Pom Poko, which I only know as the movie with the giant magic testicles. Very excited.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pom Poko is a top 5 Ghibli film
positive · AI labelView post →This movie is a masterpiece and is in a three-way tie (with Whisper of the Heart and Pom Poko) for my favorite Ghibli movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Pom Poko may seriously be the most unserious serious movie ever made
positive · AI labelView post →The only addition I can possibly make to one of today's Discourses is to reflect on the Ghibli movie Pom Poko, and how one of the desperate tanuki stretches his scrotum into a boat in which his community sails away, and how this effort fails and his community dies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ranking the 70 Ghibli scenes that affect me the most / what I think is the best. #43 is the tanuki transformation in Pom Poko. I swear I appreciate this messy movie more every time I see it.
positive · AI labelView post →Pom Poko was fun for a lot of reasons but an unintentional one is that the soulless, destructive suburb built in that movie is still a million times more environmentally sound than even the greenest American subdivision
neutral · AI labelView post →1990s, one Japanese film per year 90 Dreams 91 Only Yesterday 92 Porco Rosso 93 Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story 94 Pom Poko 95 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe 96 Shall We Dance? 97 Princess Mononoke 98 Doraemon Comes Back 99 Round About Midnight
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s from Pom Poko, a Studio Ghibli film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need everyone to know that ALL of my steel case versions of Miyazaki films come from me drunkenly screaming "I want *insert name of film here" and Chris saying "We dont have that one.". Tonight it was Pom Poko. There is no steel case Pom Poko. I hate everything.
neutral · AI labelView post →Our first movie night in the new place was a double feature of Porco Rosso and Pom Poko, and I can't think of two more perfect movies to watch on the 4th of July
positive · AI labelView post →As much as I love 'My Neighbor Totoro' and no one has ever told me about 'Pom Poko,' another deeply animist Ghibli film.
positive · AI labelView post →Seeing Pom Poko in theaters ruled but the funniest part of that movie was realizing the soulless suburb that was being built on the tanuki's land is 1000 times more eco friendly and livable than the greenest American suburb
neutral · AI labelView post →Season 10’s movie lineup has been decided on! A Colt is My Passport Nightmare Detective Kwaidan Pom Poko Princess Mononoke Sukiyaki Western Django Cure Red Beard 2LDK Ichi the Killer Coming in early 2024!
neutral · AI labelView post →I got out from seeing Hoppers. It’s possibly the best, funniest, and most original film from Pixar since turning red. I say it’s a combination of Avatar, Mission impossible, and Pom Poko with a sprinkle of the emperor’s new groove. 9/10 for me. #pixar #webarebears #hoppers #fanart #digitaldrawing
neutral · AI labelView post →Pom Poko does make me cry every time I watch it despite being the movie about a bunch of cute chubby tanukis with their balls out constantly.
positive · AI labelView post →Fast forward twenty years: Pom Poko type Ghibli film but with Al Qassam and instead of failing to dislodge the occupiers they win
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out my thoughts on Studio Ghibli's craziest and, ahem, ballsiest movie: Pom Poko. This is a documentary style movie about the plight of mythical raccoons as they are affected by time's march #Blutoid #StudioGhibli www.pillowfort.social/posts/5755620 lord-spencer.blogspot.com/2024/12/stud...
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally yes, Pom Poko is a movie about tanuki.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pom Poko may be the greatest film about small community politics, but it also showcases Tanuki myths in … interesting ways!
positive · AI labelView post →The animated film Pom Poko has a ghost parade!
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Watership Down by Richard Adams One film: Pom Poko One album: Danger Days by MCR One TV show: The Venture Brothers (or Adventure Time)
neutral · AI labelView post →For my actual hot take I think Pom Poko is a beautiful and thoughtful film and one of Takahata’s best and it frustrates me how it’s been reduced to grown adults still giggling about the tanooki balls even decades later.
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