As they continue walking, Ponyo mysteriously reverts to her fish form. Sōsuke drags Ponyo to the shore, where he finds Lisa's abandoned car. When they reach the forest, however, Ponyo tires and falls asleep, and the boat slowly reverts back to its original size. With Ponyo's magic, they make Sōsuke's pop pop boat bigger. Since it is impossible for Lisa to come home, the two decide to find her. The next day, Sōsuke and Ponyo find that most of the land around the house has been covered by the ocean. Fujimoto, still worried, reminds her that if Sōsuke fails the test, Ponyo will turn into sea foam. Gran Mamare declares that if Sōsuke can pass a test, Ponyo can live as a human and that the balance of nature will be restored. Fujimoto notices the moon appears to be falling out of its orbit and satellites are falling like shooting stars, symptoms of the dangerous imbalance of nature that now exists.
Sōsuke's father, Kōichi, sees her traveling and recognizes her as the Goddess of Mercy. Gran Mamare arrives at Fujimoto's submarine. Lisa leaves after the tsunami subsides to check up on the residents of the nursing home where she works, promising Sōsuke that she will return home as soon as possible. His mother, Lisa, allows her to stay at their house. Ponyo goes back to Sōsuke, who is amazed and overjoyed to see her. The huge amount of magic that she releases into the ocean causes an imbalance in nature, resulting in a tsunami. Meanwhile, Ponyo, with the help of her sisters, breaks away from her father and inadvertently uses his magic to make herself human. Fujimoto forces her to change back into her true form and leaves to summon Ponyo's mother, Gran Mamare. With magic, she forces herself to grow leg- and arm-like appendages and start changing into a human, a power granted to her by Sōsuke's human blood that she licked. Ponyo refuses to let her father call her by her birth name, declaring her desire to be a human named Ponyo. He calls his wave spirits to recover her, leaving Sōsuke heartbroken and confused by what happened. Meanwhile, a distraught Fujimoto searches frantically for his lost daughter whom he believes to have been kidnapped. Sōsuke names her Ponyo and promises to protect her. Brunhilde licks his blood, healing the wound almost instantly. While shattering the jar with a rock, Sōsuke cuts his finger. After an encounter with a fishing trawler, she becomes trapped in a glass jar and drifts to the shore of a small fishing town where she is rescued by five-year-old boy Sōsuke. While she and her siblings are on an outing with their father in his four-flippered submarine, Brunhilde sneaks off and floats away on the back of a jellyfish. It was produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company and released by Walt Disney Pictures.įujimoto, a once-human wizard/scientist, lives underwater with his daughter Brunhilde and her numerous smaller sisters. It received critical acclaim for its uplifting themes, visual design, and simultaneous appeal towards young children and all audiences.Īn English-language version of the film was released on August 14, 2009, releasing to 927 theatres across the U.S., the widest opening for a Studio Ghibli film across the U.S. It was a major commercial success, grossing over $204 million worldwide and becoming the fifth-highest-grossing anime film of all time. The film was originally released in Japan on Jby distributor Toho. As they bond with each other, the story deals with resolving Ponyo's desire to become a human girl, against the devastating circumstances brought about by her acquisition and use of magic. The film tells the story of Ponyo (Nara), a goldfish who escapes from the ocean and is rescued by a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke (Doi) after she is washed ashore while trapped in a glass jar.
It is the eighth film Miyazaki directed for Studio Ghibli, and his tenth overall. The film stars Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yūki Amami, George Tokoro, Rumi Hiiragi, Akiko Yano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tomoko Naraoka. Ponyo ( Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ, Hepburn: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, 'Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea') is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi, and distributed by Toho.