plot outline

Loren 2022-04-20 09:02:12

The play tells the story in the tone of a civet cat. At first, it was said that the tanuki fought for the woodland. They can walk on two feet when humans can't see them. Later, when the forest was invaded by humans, they stopped fighting and started to learn transformation, and some civet cats have learned something and can transform into a human form. The leader of one faction called on several warriors to raid the construction site because the forest where he grew up was about to be cut down. They caused the death of the construction site driver and the development project was suspended. When the civet cats were celebrating, they accidentally trampled the leader into serious injuries, and it took at least a year of cultivation. The civet cats decided to turn into mountain gods and use the human "sentence" mentality to delay the development of another mountain. The two academically successful tanuki set out to invite the masters to come over. Other tanukis continue to play tricks to delay development, and transforming has become their greatest joy. At this time, a raccoon came from another mountain forest. He said that his home was also polluted by the wasteland. Please stop the development of the protagonists, the protagonists feel powerless. When winter came, the raccoon pushed the bulldozer down the mountain and was seen by the workers who stayed at the construction site. In the end, it was dismissed because of insufficient evidence. The elders invited from Shikoku arrived, and they organized a monster battle, which was gorgeous and strange. As a result, one of the elders died suddenly, and the monster battle was forced to stop. The raccoons thought the battle was a success, but the next day, the director of an amusement park in the development zone stood up and said that this was the publicity of their park. The tanukis were disheartened. At this time, a fox who turned into a human went to the leader Tanuki to talk: I hope they become human and work in the amusement park, this is the only way to survive. And the tanuki who can't transform can only be abandoned. At this time, the raccoons began to fall apart. Some raccoons went to work in the amusement park (in the end, the raccoons took away all the money as funds for the battle), some launched armed forces, and some simply ate fast food and chanted Buddha every day. All the armed factions were killed, and the tanuki who ate and chanted Buddha took the treasure boat away. Some of them had to be forced to live as human beings, while the tanuki who couldn't transform themselves lived. Tanuki Masaichi sees his former friends get together to sing and dance for fun on the way from get off work, and he joins them. Sadness and joy are mixed, and the happy scene is lined with sadness, and the end.

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Pom Poko quotes

  • Narrator: A few tanuki went into real estate and got rich, selling forests to developers. They're no different from the humans.

  • Narrator: Some raccoons sold real estate, and, unable to resist the money they could make, promoted leveling even more forests.

    [Seizaemon, in human form, is shown on the phone]

    Seizaemon: I've got a prime piece of forest just waiting to be developed!