🎬 Pom Poko (1994)

Isao Takahata (October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018), co-founder of Studio Ghibli, was one of the most famous directors of Japanese animated films. Unlike most anime directors, he did not draw and never worked as an animator before becoming a director.

Makoto Nonomura is a Japanese actor and TV personality born in 1964 in Tokyo. He is best known for voicing the lead character Shōkichi in Isao Takahata's Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko (1994). Alongside that role, he spent nearly four decades as a regular panelist on the long-running TBS variety show Sekai Fushigi Hakken…

Nijiko Kiyokawa was born on November 24, 1912 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan as Hana Sekiguchi. She was an actress, known for Pom Poko (1994), and Das kleine Teehaus (1956). She died on May 24, 2002 in Takatsu, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

Actor and singer

Norihei Miki was a Japanese actor and comedian with a long career in theatre, film, and television. He is known in the context of the 1994 Studio Ghibli animated film Ponpoko, in which he provided a voice role.

Yuriko Ishida (石田 ゆり子 (石田 百合子), Ishida Yuriko; born October 3, 1969) is a Japanese actress and essayist from Nagoya. She was the Japanese voice of the title character San from the 1997 animated film Princess Mononoke. She is the older sister of Hikari Ishida, also an actress.