Color: Color
Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9
Original Release Year: 1994

Description:

Isao Takahata said, "Don't you think the fact that there are no films about raccoon dogs, a uniquely Japanese animal, is proof that the Japanese animation industry has been slacking off? I think it would be interesting." Hayao Miyazaki was in the middle of the production of "Red Pig". These two words were the catalyst for the "Raccoon" project. Director Takahata wrote the original story for the film for the first time, and based on the original story, a well-thought-out script and storyboards were completed. After five years, "Heisei Raccoon War Ponpoko" was completed. The setting is the Tama Hills, an area rich in natural blessings. The raccoon dogs that live here are being displaced from their feeding grounds by a housing development project, and they are campaigning against the development. Despite its socially conscious content of destruction of nature, the bittersweet and bittersweet ruckus of laughter and tears caused by the lovable and lovable raccoon dogs soothed everyone from adults to children, and the film was the top-grossing Japanese film in terms of distribution revenue in 1994. The voice cast for this film includes Makoto Nonomura and Yuriko Ishida, as well as Nijiko Kiyokawa, Norihei Miki, Gannosuke Ashiya, and Shigeru Izumiya.The film is further enhanced by the presence of a diverse cast of rakugo greats, including Shintcho Kokontei III as narrator and Kosan Yanagiya V, Yonesan Katsura III, and Bunshi Katsura V as the eldest raccoon players. For the Blu-ray disc release, the film was digitally remastered in 4K (approx. 8.29 million pixels), four times the normal 2K (approx. 2.07 million pixels), to create the master. Combined with the master grade video coding technology that enabled the recording of high quality images with rich texture, the color and image quality of the theatrical release has been reproduced for your enjoyment. The special bonus features include the rakugo story "Raccoon Sai" specially narrated by Shintcho Kokontei III, who also narrated the story. This is a very valuable video clip of a rakugo story specially narrated for this film. In addition to Japanese, English, French, Korean, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), and many other languages in which the film was introduced are included in the audio and subtitles, along with storyboard footage, recording scripts, and trailers that can be enjoyed picture-in-picture with the film.