Last Sunday Cinema: Pom Poko

Free entry, with tea and chat afterwards!

The tanuki have always lived in the Tama Hills, an area outside of Tokyo that has yet to be developed until the beginning of the economic boom in the 1960s. It is then when they must figure out how to deal with the humans encroaching on their territory. Some tanuki want to opt for a violent method, fighting off the humans from the area. Others want to use their transforming abilities to scare them away peacefully.

One day, a fox, another shape-shifting animal, comes to the tanuki with another solution: transform and live among the humans. However, many tanuki cannot transform ...