Pom Poko

Movie • 1994 • Adventure  

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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.
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Does the dog die?
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Raccoon dogs (tanuki) die, but no actual dog dies.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Is someone eaten?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is someone drugged?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Abandonment
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VelvetBow
Two tanukis abandon another tanuki after it gets trapped
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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Tanukis comically follow people around to scare them.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Tanukis get drunk, but it is shown in a comical manner.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Ambre
A realistic tanuki is trapped in a cage, cartoon humanized tanukis get hit by policemen.
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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several raccoon dogs (tanuki) die.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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tuesday.morning
Tanukis get hit by cars, killed by police, and there's a lot of implied death.
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Ambre
A tanuki is briefly shown eating some insect larvae, but insects are not shown often.
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Are there snakes?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A giant snake, drawn simply.
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Does a pet die?
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Are there spiders?
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VelvetBow
There is one giant spider youkai, a tsuchigumo, that appears briefly for a few seconds in the background during the scene with the two drunkards in the youkai parade
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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VelvetBow
While none of them are in fear and they all are doing so playfully, the chasing during the mating season might be weird to some
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Depends on definition. A tanuki is trapped in a small cage, and no one knows how long it will have to stay there.
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MarinaLoureiro
I think trauma definitely, because the “balls” of some tanukis are used as weapons
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Addition to Ambre's comment: The head is reminiscent of a head or mask out of Japanese theatre/mythology, with exaggerated and distorted features; it doesn't look like a normal human face that could exist. It's not exactly squashed, but split in half by a truck.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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JordanRayBledsoe
The character Gunta breaks several bones
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but characters jump through fire and turn into fire.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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Death
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obtusepeculiarremix
Quite a bit of tanuki death, could be upsetting.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Hmm... A tanuki is trapped in a small cage by humans, who, when they return to check the trap, will most likely either kill the tanuki on the spot or - less likely - take it somewhere.
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Does a parent die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
It's mentioned that tanukis (like every other living being) die, including those who have children. The sentence goes something like "They had cubs, ate, drank [...] and eventually died, much too quickly." I'm almost completely sure that no specific character whom we know to be a parent dies in the movie.
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Fear
Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The tanukis take the shape of spirits and demons; that's all.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there defecation?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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obtusepeculiarremix
The police are the bad guys in this movie.
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Loss
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MarinaLoureiro
The forest
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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A convalescent character is shown resting with a plaster around his arm, but he is at home.
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Mental Health
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A metaphoric, very non-explicit group suicide happens. Tanukis are shown partying on a boat, sailing away.
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Does someone self harm?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A tanuki is trapped in a small cage.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not in the clinical sense, I'd say. A tanuki has a breakdown, but that's more like uncontrollable sorrow for good reason.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Does a baby cry?
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Cubs come into existence during the movie, but the births aren't shown.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there abortions?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there fat jokes?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
I don't think so. Perhaps some overweight characters are meant to look funny, but it's not something I noticed.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Male tanukis can transform into female humans, and female tanukis can transform into male humans, for fun, as transformation practice and because it could be useful. So people who met the tanukis in that form would take them to be of another sex than they actually are. But I wouldn't call that "misgendering" in the problematic sense.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no LGBT characters identified in the movie.
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Is there hate speech?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Well, from tanukis toward humans.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there aphobia?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Ambre
Because of japanese mythology of tanukis shape shifting and transforming their testicles, animal testicles are shown very often. This is never done in a sexual manner.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Sickness
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obtusepeculiarremix
An older tanuki becomes senile and very mentally ill to the point of starting a cult, but no specific references to dementia/alzheimer's that I can remember.
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Social
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Spoiler
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canidaeTrot
the ending is kind of bittersweet- but it's not the worst it could be.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Some tanukis are. We see it happen once or twice, and we see at least one dead tanuki lying dead on the road after being hit.
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A little blood. I remember one dead tanuki with a small pool of blood by its head, and there may be blood in other scenes. But nothing even comes close to gore.
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Does someone drown?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not really violence, as far as I remember. A gun is fired wildly into the air out of fear; I'm 95% sure no one is hit (it's hard to tell). Someone forces a group of characters into submission by pointing with a gun.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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