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Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008) -- The story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo and her quest to become human.

Overview

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Director:
Writer:
Hayao Miyazaki (written by)
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Release Date:
14 August 2009 (USA) more
Tagline:
Welcome To A World Where Anything Is Possible.
Plot:
An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 6 nominations more
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All the Enthusiasm of Finger Paints more (76 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Yuria Nara ... Ponyo (voice: Japanese Version)
Hiroki Doi ... Sosuke (voice: Japanese Version)
Jôji Tokoro ... Fujimoto (voice: Japanese Version)
Tomoko Yamaguchi ... Risa (voice: Japanese Version)
Yûki Amami ... Guranmamare (voice: Japanese Version)
Kazushige Nagashima ... Kôichi (voice: Japanese Version)
Akiko Yano ... Ponyo no kyôdai (voice: Japanese Version)
Shinichi Hatori ... Anchorman (voice: Japanese Version)
Tokie Hidari ... Kayo (voice: Japanese Version)
Eimi Hiraoka ... Kumiko (voice: Japanese Version)
Rumi Hîragi ... Young Mother (voice: Japanese Version)
Tomoko Naraoka ... Yoshie (voice: Japanese Version)
Nozomi Ohashi ... Karen (voice: Japanese Version)
Kazuko Yoshiyuki ... Toki (voice: Japanese Version)
Akihiko Ishizumi ... (voice: Japanese Version)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ponyo (USA)
Ponyo on the Cliff (International: English title) (informal literal title)
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Australia)
Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project (International: English title) (working title)
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Runtime:
103 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
South Korea:All | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:G | Taiwan:GP | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Netherlands:AL | Belgium:KT | USA:G (certificate #45429) | Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/4 (dubbed version) | Portugal:M/6 (subtitled version) | Canada:G (all jurisdictions) | Australia:G | Mexico:A | New Zealand:G | Sweden:7 | Ireland:G | UK:U | Denmark:7
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
More than 160,000 animation cels were created for the film. more
Quotes:
Sosuke: [after several waves with eyes fail to catch him by the shore] That was weird. more
Movie Connections:
References Tonari no Totoro (1988) more
Soundtrack:
Umi no o-kaasan more

FAQ

Where is Ponyo's hometown located?
In the movie Ponyo is called "Brunhilda" by her father. What does it mean?
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117 out of 121 people found the following comment useful.
All the Enthusiasm of Finger Paints, 27 July 2008
Author: tinulthin from Japan

Gake no Ue no Ponyo is like something you might get if you mashed My Neighbour Totoro into The Little Mermaid, then put the entire project in the hands of a five-year-old animation prodigy. The film is simultaneously stunning in its beauty and endearing in its simplicity, unrestrained enthusiasm walking the edge between inspired brilliance and mind-addling delirium.

In the opening sequences, literally thousands of individually animated fish swirl across the screen—a task Western animators wouldn't touch without a room full of computers. And yet the film's omnipresent water is defined by hard lines that seem to have been drawn in with crayons and coloured by pastels. In style and content, this is clearly a children's fantasy, and yet it isn't.

Remarkably, Miyazaki has yet again achieved what he created in Totoro: a film that draws the viewer indelibly into the world of children, reminding us of the time when every discovery was unique, every possession precious, and the agony of loss crouched behind every well-meaning mistake. Perhaps this is why the film has appealed more to adults than to children in Japan: children still live in this world. They need no such reminders.

Sousuke, a five-year-old who retrieves the eponymous Ponyo from the ocean, is not another Pinocchio-like screen caricature. He is a real boy. He is intelligent yet careless, deeply conscientious but distracted by impulse. He grounds us in a world that wavers between the real and the surreal.

Wide-eyed wizard Fujimoto, voiced with narcoleptic mania by comedian Tokoro Joji, is by far the most rational of the film's fantastical creations. He's an oddball, but he makes sense. But when waves begin to lap at the doorstep to Sousuke's hilltop home and the townsfolk jovially pile into rowboats to scud over a swollen sea of prehistoric fish, we begin to wonder whether this is the real world or some beatific daydream. Miyazaki draws no clear distinction.

Gake no Ue no Ponyo is a children's love story, driven with monomaniacal ferocity by Ponyo and Sousuke's pure mutual affection. Composer Joe Hisaishi underscores this intensity, calling up mighty swells of strings to accompany Ponyo's first ascent to the surface, and later evoking Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in a stunning sequence where Ponyo chases down a speeding car while running atop a cascading tsunami of gigantic fish.

While the film loses much of its energy—though none of its eccentricity—in the final act, Miyazaki has nonetheless succeeded in creating yet another modern fairy tale. It is a simple, pure vision, guilelessly washed across with a devoted kindergartener's finger paints.

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