Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

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Genre

Animation

Run time

1h 41min

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki

Composer: Joe Hisaishi

Cast: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yuki Amami, George Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi

A small town by the sea. Five year-old Sosuke lives high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning, while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish named Ponyo. Sosuke rescues her and keeps her in a green plastic pail. Ponyo is fascinated by Sosuke and he feels the same about Ponyo. But Ponyo’s father Fujimoto – once human, now a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea – forces the fish to return with him into the ocean depths. Determined to become a little girl and make her way back to Sosuke, Ponyo escapes. But before doing so, she empties the Water of Life, Fujimoto’s precious store of magical elixir, into the ocean. Ponyo’s sisters are transformed into enormous fish-shaped tidal waves that climb as high as Sosuke’s house on the cliff. The chaos of the ocean world envelops Sosuke’s little town making it sink beneath the waves.

Genre

Animation

Run time

1h 41min

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki

Composer: Joe Hisaishi

Cast: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yuki Amami, George Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi

A small town by the sea. Five year-old Sosuke lives high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning, while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish named Ponyo. Sosuke rescues her and keeps her in a green plastic pail. Ponyo is fascinated by Sosuke and he feels the same about Ponyo. But Ponyo’s father Fujimoto – once human, now a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea – forces the fish to return with him into the ocean depths. Determined to become a little girl and make her way back to Sosuke, Ponyo escapes. But before doing so, she empties the Water of Life, Fujimoto’s precious store of magical elixir, into the ocean. Ponyo’s sisters are transformed into enormous fish-shaped tidal waves that climb as high as Sosuke’s house on the cliff. The chaos of the ocean world envelops Sosuke’s little town making it sink beneath the waves.