Can I ask for the name of a Japanese cartoon?

The Variety of Tanuki (also known as "Heisei Tanuki War", English name: Pom Poko)

"The Variety of Tanuki" is an original animation directed by Takahata Sao. After completing "Porco Rosso", Hayao Miyazaki suddenly had the idea of ??using a tanuki as the protagonist of his next animation, so "Various Tanuki" was born.

In the minds of the Japanese, tanukis are mysterious animals. They can use illusions similar to blindfolding. Their bodies can change into any shape, or they can turn leaves into money or something to deceive humans. . In "The Variety of Tanuki", a group of tanukis living near Tokyo want to use this illusion to scare humans and put the community construction project on hold. Unfortunately, due to various internal and external reasons, the ending is quite helpless.

The thoughts of the civet cats in the play are no different from those of humans. I think the producers deliberately alluded to people from a certain class (perhaps intellectuals). But this is just my own opinion, and I might be wrong. Let everyone experience it slowly.

To be honest, this work is probably Qiangrico’s least favorite Ghibli work. After all, Takahata’s work this time is a bit too realistic (even if it is a tanuki) Character...), excessively mirroring real life, as if the author wants to forcefully instill something into the audience. Or maybe the Chinese audience can't understand some of the things in the film that can arouse people's excitement? Of course, these are all qiangrico’s immature opinions^^ It’s probably true that everyone has their own preferences, but if you watch this work from another angle, the feeling will be very different! For example, from the perspective of art appreciation... the film places special emphasis on "total natural color imaging". Compared with previous Ghibli animations, "Catana" definitely has the largest number of colors.

Production: Tokuma Shoten Nippon Television Network Hakuhodo Ghibli

Original work? Script? Supervision/Takahata Sao

Planning/Hayao Miyazaki< /p>

プロデューサー／Suzuki Toshio

Theme song／上々typhoon

キャラクターデザイン／Otsuka Shinji

イメージビルディング／Momoze Yoshiyuki.大 Shinji Tsuka

Animation supervision/Shinji Otsuka Ai Kagawa

Art/Kazuo Oga

Color design/Michiyo Yasuda

Production time: '92.8.17～'94.6.13

Full film time: 118 minutes, 59 seconds 01

Number of manuscripts: 82,289

Number of colors used : 502 Colors

Ration: Toho

Premiere time: 1994.7.16 (Saturday)

(C) Hata Office.TNHG／1994 theme song

「ァヅァのこの街で」

「いつでもWho is the street」

Song: Typhoon

Movie review:

My emotions when watching "The Variety of Civets" are actually a bit like watching "Westward Journey". I laughed all the way and cried bitterly at the end. It's not because they have any great sadness, it's just that the so-called reality they each told is so cruel. It makes people feel sad.

The cruelest reality in is the law of survival of the fittest in nature. From a certain perspective, humans are naturally the eternal winners in this battle. Because of the civet cats , or other animals, they don't have a city as deep as the human heart. Although some of them can transform into a shocking parade, or eventually transform into a human being, living a tired life in human society. Those who don't know the magic of transformation They have no choice but to struggle to survive in increasingly smaller mountain and forest spaces. Of course humans do not care about their fate. We are each working hard to live our own lives, and we also occupy more land space for survival.

A movie review said, "We laughed until the end of the film because it was a ridiculous war, from head to toe. Because we are not civet cats, we will not shed tears." Haha, then I am a civet cat. ?The dark circles under the eyes reflected in the mirror are probably a sign that the adult life is too tiring and the prototype is revealed?

I loved this movie so much that I cried until I cried at the end.

In fact, every Studio Ghibli cartoon can be regarded as a classic. The reason why this film touches the heartstrings so much is probably because the theme is very hopeless.

If a person lives a human life and never disturbs a civet cat;

If a civet cat lives a civet cat life and never disturbs a person

No There will be such stories

But the problem is, the fact is there, nature is the law of the jungle, but humans are getting stronger and the civet cats are getting weaker.

This is a truth that everyone understands. From the beginning, I didn’t think that the civet cats could have their beautiful life again, but I always kept a little hope in my heart. After all, this is a cartoon. Give me some Tenderness is okay, right?

But you find that the harder the civet cats work, the further they deviate from their desired goals, because they are no longer in time.

That’s the word, inappropriate.

Just like a business society, if you don’t have an economic foundation, you can’t build an ivory tower.

The civet cat is so much like us. We throw away our dreams one by one, and then follow the ideals of most of society to blend and blend into a self that we dare not recognize.

When at the end, the civet cats tried their best to create the illusion of their former hometown, forests, fields, streams and the beautiful life of the past, I actually knew in my heart that the past was given to me and I miss it when I occasionally look back, but how? Reconciling yourself and finding a person that most people are willing to accept is what is more important than your dreams.

Just cry. If you want to live, you still have to live among the crowd like a civet cat.

Miyazaki Hayao's works are full of surprises every time, but this time is different.

Looking at the names, Pingcheng Tanuki Battle and Variety Tanuki, you would think it would be a very funny movie, but I was only half right.

Heijo Tanuki Battle is a movie that will make you laugh until you cry.

Start laughing at the chubby body of the civet cats, their timid but unwilling attitude when fighting with sticks, their strange shapes when they are in disguise... and their simplicity and kindness.

"We are so fat and cute, humans will never hurt us."

They mischievously confuse humans, and the only losses they bring to humans are injuries to three innocent workers. The kind-hearted civet cats pray for this. Human beings pride themselves on being higher animals with developed IQs, while calling all other animals lower animals. At the same time, they not only elevate themselves to the point of looking down on others from a high place, but also silently give themselves the right to live and kill.

When wild animals hurt humans, we say that they are "bestial";

When humans invade the homes of animals, make them feel desperate, and kill them wantonly, humans Yet he is still shouting about his humanity.

I just saw that the civet cat is like a mirror, reflecting the true face of human beings.

Only when the elders woven a blanket from their own hair and took it on the ship to a destination they knew well but were too numb to mention, did the civet cats discover that they were How weak they are, no matter how great their resistance is, they are insignificant in front of humans. They reluctantly admit that "human beings are the king of beasts."

After traveling for three years, the civet cat returned to his hometown and saw that his relatives and friends were separated from each other. He fell to the ground and cried bitterly, "We are so fat and cute, why do humans treat us so cruelly?" Us? ”

I still can’t help but shed tears for the animals in the cartoon.

Appreciation of pictures related to "The Variety of Civet Cats"

Civet cats, civet cats, let's go play, shall we?

The film begins with a children's song: "Civet cats, civet cats, let's go play?..." A warm female voice narration begins to tell how civet cats like to live close to people because there are farmlands there. , you can catch food and pick up some fruits. They also found an abandoned house and moved their nest there. But after living for a year, suddenly one day an excavator broke the peace there, and everyone had to leave. The food was reduced, and civet cats from other places often came to compete for food, and conflicts arose. In the autumn of the thirty-first year of the civet calendar, the civet cats living near the Wind Chime Forest and the hills of the Vulture Forest had their last great battle.

The two sides rushed from the hillside to the open space, and began to transform as they ran (of course, into cartoon figures like Mickey Mouse), armed with swords, guns and clubs, and the leaders also changed into the costumes of warriors from the Warring States Period. When the two sides were fighting fiercely, the prestigious Fireball Six came out playing a tambourine and singing: "Whether the red side wins or the blue side wins, both sides are losers, and the Condor Forest and Wind Chime Forest will disappear. , everyone will be homeless and wander around, and they will all die, because the forest no longer exists.” As the population increased and there was no longer enough space for human habitation, the government decided to develop a new town plan for Tama. The civet cats climbed up the high-voltage iron tower and looked at the human construction projects in the distance that were encroaching on their homes.

Faced with this emergency, all the tanukis in the Tama Hills gathered at the abandoned temple in the forest. Everyone unanimously elected Elder Hegui, a 105-year-old civet cat who lives in the temple, as the speaker, and the meeting began in a rabble-like chaos. Some fight, some sleep, some eat, and some civet cats openly fart in the crowd. In order to survive, the civet cats decided to revive the ancient "disguise technique" and challenge humans. And unanimously decided on a five-year plan to study humans. Their goal is "human research and chemical renaissance." In the minds of Japanese people, tanukis are mysterious animals. They can use illusions similar to blindfolding. Their bodies can change into any shape, or they can turn leaves into money or something to deceive humans. "Disguise" is this thing. In many cartoons, we can see tanukis putting leaves on their heads and turning somersaults into humans or other things. The civet cats also asked the Fireball Six Po who was going to demonstrate the secret method to them. "Putting leaves is just for beginners." Fireball Six replied, and then turned into a pot. Thunderous applause. The art of disguise is a rigorous exercise of mind, skill and body, but there are still civets who are greedy and playful. The raccoon cat Masakichi was not attentive when learning the art of disguise and performed very poorly among everyone.

The final stage of the art of disguise is street practice. Disguise, especially turning into a human, consumes a lot of energy. Excessive consumption will cause "civet eyes", just like the dark bags under the eyes when a person is not awake. At this time, even civet cats who are proficient in the art of disguise must drink energy potions or eat to replenish their physical strength, otherwise their original shape will appear. After passing the street internship, you have to take an exam to earn 1,000 yen in a peaceful way. The methods adopted by the civet cats are different. Several civet cats pretend to be one person at the same time and go to the construction site to work, while some dress up as monks and stand on the ground. There were also female civet cats who went to the bar to beg for alms at the station. One civet cat picked up a marble and won a lot of money at the marble center. Some civet cats turned leaves into money and gave it to Six Po, but Six Po found out. There is a big bag in my head.

When Mrs. Quan was learning the art of disguise, she received an emergency report and rushed back to the Condor Forest. When she saw that the home where she grew up had been turned into a construction site by humans, she was furious. He ran back to the headquarters and forced Elder Hegui to hold a meeting of clan leaders and proposed launching a war to repel the humans. Some people raised objections at the meeting, but Quan Taili insisted on going ahead despite all objections, and Zhengji also supported him. Quan Tai and others used the art of disguise to successfully cause several traffic accidents. After Gonta and Masakichi came back, Gonta gave a speech about the eradication of mankind, but decided not to kill them all because of the delicacies of mankind (stay and cook? You greedy guys.). The civet cats celebrated this victory enthusiastically - Quan Tai was accidentally trampled by the fanatical crowd and was wrapped in a mummy to recover from his injuries. Zhengji led everyone in a new round of operations, taking advantage of people's awe of gods and Buddhas, pretending to be gods and ghosts, and delaying the project. Everyone was happy to have fooled people and held a celebration. But Quan Tai believes that such a battle cannot drive people away. Quan Tai was right, the development plan was still proceeding as normal, and the civet cat's behavior just added ghost themes to newspapers and magazines.

In the 32nd autumn of the raccoon calendar, Tamasaburo and Bunta were selected by the guessing game to go to Shikoku and Sado to recruit disguise masters respectively. The long wait made Quan Tai very angry and wanted to launch an attack on humans, but Zhengji disagreed and believed that he should wait for the arrival of the elders. Quan Tai used a "military coup" method to force everyone to agree to his plan, but the topic turned to food. If you use force, it will fall apart ridiculously. Finally, Tamasaburo came from Shikoku with the three elders, and the civet cats welcomed them happily. In the autumn of the thirty-third year of the civet calendar, the civet cats held a general meeting. The three elders said that only by making people awe of the civet cats can they stop development and repel humans, so they must use secret techniques and transform to launch a monster war. The massive protest by the Hundred Ghosts at Night is the most illusory and mysterious sequence in the film.

The tanukis parade in psychedelic colors to terrorize the residents, putting on a superb show of Japanese folklore. The bright colors and ever-changing folklore programs have a strong visual effect that is unforgettable! An elder died due to exhaustion, but humans also panicked. When the tanukis were rejoicing at their overall victory, a "financially minded" amusement park owner immediately said that Hyakki Yakou's incident was a promotional event for the amusement park organized by him - the tanukis' last struggle was completely exploited .

Various methods have been used, and the conclusion is that there is no way out. The civet cats have only a few choices: become human and integrate into society; lingering in the forest; destroyed by the natural law of survival of the fittest...

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Information on the Variety Civet Cat animated film

About the Variety Civet Cat :

"The Variety of Tanuki" is an original animation directed by Takahata Sao. After completing "Porco Rosso", Hayao Miyazaki suddenly had the idea of ??using a tanuki as the protagonist of his next animation, so "Various Tanuki" was born.

In the minds of Japanese people, tanukis are mysterious animals. They can use a kind of illusion similar to blindfolding. Their bodies can change into any shape, or they can turn leaves into money or something to deceive humans. . In "The Variety of Tanuki", a group of tanukis living near Tokyo want to use this illusion to scare humans and put the community construction project on hold. Unfortunately, due to various internal and external reasons, the ending is quite helpless.

The thoughts of the civet cats in the play are no different from those of humans. I think the producers deliberately alluded to people from a certain class (perhaps intellectuals). But this is just my own opinion, and I might be wrong. Let everyone experience it slowly.

To be honest, this work is probably Qiangrico’s least favorite Ghibli work. After all, Takahata’s work this time is a bit too realistic (even if it is a tanuki) Character...), excessively mirroring real life, as if the author wants to forcefully instill something into the audience. Or maybe the Chinese audience can't understand some of the things in the film that can arouse people's excitement? Of course, these are all qiangrico’s immature opinions^^ It’s probably true that everyone has their own preferences, but if you watch this work from another angle, the feeling will be very different! For example, from the perspective of art appreciation... the film places special emphasis on "total natural color imaging". Compared with previous Ghibli animations, "Catana" definitely has the largest number of colors. See the table below:

The number of colors used in Nausicaa: 263 colors

The number of colors used in Castle in the Sky: 381 colors

The number of colors used in My Neighbor Totoro: 308 Color

The number of colors used in Grave of the Fireflies: 304 colors

The number of colors used in Witch’s Delivery Service: 462 colors

The number of colors used in Bits and Pieces of Memories: 370 Color

The number of colors used by the red pig: 476 colors

The number of colors used by Hear the Waves: 304 colors

The number of colors used by the Variety Civet Cat: 502 colors

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Number of colors used to listen carefully: 427 colors

Number of colors used in Princess Mononoke: 580 colors

It can be seen from this that, except for the super-large production "Princess Mononoke" in 1997 , the production quality of "The Variety Civet" is the best. Of course, the number of colors alone cannot reflect the quality of an animation. Here is just a side reference.

Information announcement:

Production: Tokuma Shoten, Japan Airlines, Japan TV Network, Hakuhodo Ghibli

Original work. Script. Supervision/Isao Takahata< /p>

Planning/Miyazaki Hayao

Producer/Suzuki Toshio

Theme song/Typhoon