Pom Poko
CINEMA EAST SERIES/STUDIO GHIBLI: TAKAHATA: In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece from Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Isao Takahata, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. The tanuki spend their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling over food – until the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb clears the nearby forest and threatens their way of life. In an effort to defend their home, the tanuki learn to transform into humans and start playing tricks to make the workers think the construction site is haunted, ending in a spectacular night-time spirit parade, with thousands of ghosts, dragons and other magical creatures descending on the city — in an abundance of fantastical characters that would not be matched on screen by Studio Ghibli until SPIRITED AWAY.Pom Poko showing at: May 15, 7:45 pmPom Poko
Location: Pickford Film Center1318 Bay St, Bellingham, WA, 982253
2025-05-15T19:45:00-07:00PT1H59M2025-05-15T22:09:00-07:00152Makoto Nonomura
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Shigeru Izumiya
Yuriko Ishida
Megumi Hayashibara
Isao Takahata
Toshio Suzuki
Pom Poko"
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