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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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Tanukis comically follow people around to scare them.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Tanukis get drunk, but it is shown in a comical manner.
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Animal
Does a horse 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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Are animals abused?
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A realistic tanuki is trapped in a cage, cartoon humanized tanukis get hit by policemen.
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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 cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A giant snake, drawn simply.
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Are there bugs?
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A tanuki is briefly shown eating some insect larvae, but insects are not shown often.
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but characters jump through fire and turn into fire.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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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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Is there a hanging?
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JordanRayBledsoe
The character Gunta breaks several bones
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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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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Is there eye mutilation?
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Family
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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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
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 jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone spit?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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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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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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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 body dysmorphia?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A tanuki is trapped in a small cage.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Ambre
A metaphoric, very non-explicit group suicide happens. Tanukis are shown partying on a boat, sailing away.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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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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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no LGBT characters identified in the movie.
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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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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Well, from tanukis toward humans.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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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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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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canidaeTrot
the ending is kind of bittersweet- but it's not the worst it could be.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane 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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Violence
Does someone drown?
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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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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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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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