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Pom Poko (Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, lit. ' Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko ') is a 1994 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Isao Takahata, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho.
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), [1] also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, タヌキ), [2] is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It is one of two species in the genus Nyctereutes, alongside the common raccoon dog (N. procyonoides), [3] of which it was traditionally thought to be a subspecies (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus).
These raccoons are now a pest in Japan and imports of raccoons are now banned. The importation of raccoons was banned because people in Japan started releasing their pet raccoons in to the wild—especially after the final episode of Rascal the Raccoon was released. Additionally, raccoons can become too violent and hard to handle once they grew ...
The raccoons often approach the home and scratch on windows and walls, but last week she called 911 when she said they trapped her on the property. Video shows nearly 100 raccoons swarm woman's ...
Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama".. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki, written during the Nara period, is the passages "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu ...
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on five reviews, with an average rating of 6.1 out of 10. [4]Mark Kermode of The Guardian wrote "Western audiences may be aware that great swaths of Japanese cultural references are simply washing over them, but the cultural hybridity is so wide ranging that no one could feel utterly excluded from the film's ...
Mujina is an old Japanese term primarily referring to the Japanese badger, but traditionally to the Japanese raccoon dog , causing confusion. [1] [2] Adding to the confusion, it may also refer to the introduced masked palm civet [citation needed], and in some regions badger-like animals or Japanese raccoon dog are also called mami.
Raccoons enjoy the dark, so a strategically placed flashlight can be a deterrent. Similarly, motion-activated lights surrounding the home can startle raccoons into staying away. Water.