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“Tanuki family faces winter hardship, encounters magic that transforms their fate in nature's delicate balance.”
Spring Comes to Ponsuke
ポン助の春
5.1
14,026 rank · 1,042 viewers · 1 favorites
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Comedy
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Tanuki family faces winter hardship, encounters magic that transforms their fate in nature's delicate balance.
A family of tanuki braves the winter landscape in search of sustenance. When they discover what appears to be a promising food source, their hopes are quickly dashed, leading to an encounter with mysterious forces that will forever change their fate. This atmospheric tale explores themes of nature, transformation, and the delicate balance between the mundane and the magical. (Source: AniDB)
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mode 5
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- 5 “Cute and funny aesthetics, I still dont understand why they mostly like to use animals for it, it seems out of hand, but it's refreshing no to see those same monkeys who kept being shoved into our...”
- 6 “Spring Comes to Ponsuke is one of the few almost completely preserved works of Japanese auteur Ikuo Oishi, who was at the time of his work considered the Japanese equivalent of Walt Disney who...”
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A Movie Production
- Format 1 × 7′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 07m all episodes
- Aired Aug 1934 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-8808 catalog