Pom Poko is about a bunch of raccoon-like animals, native to japan and many other Asian countries, fight to save their homeland, which was a large mountain covered with an evergreen forest. the story is pretty simple too, if we strip the basic plot from the movie, what's left is a lot of comedic stuff, the whole movie is a satire. now i like this because it's extremely thought provoking, in a way the movie bashes all the other perfect animate fairy tales, at first glance, this looks like a story about a bunch of magical animals, trying to do the right thing and teach us humans a lesson, but no, make no mistake, in this movie, these enlightened animals are just like humans, they are mixed into this crazy world, influenced by human values, and in the end they weren't able to save their land, so they learned to adapt, and those who couldn't, went on to live a harsh life instead. but the messages are clearer than any happy-ending-learn-a-lesson kind of movies, what are they? well you'd have to watch it to find out yourself.
