Ponyo


Ponyo Japanese , Hepburn Gake no Ue no Ponyo? , literally Ponyo on the Cliff , initially titled in English as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is the eighth film Miyazaki directed for Ghibli, and his tenth overall. The film stars the voices of Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yki Amami, George Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Rumi Hiiragi, Akiko Yano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tomoko Naraoka. The plot centers on a goldfish named Ponyo who befriends a fiveyearold human boy, Ssuke, and wants to become a human girl.

Brunhilde is a fishgirl who lives with her father Fujimoto, a oncehuman wizardscientist who now lives underwater, along with her numerous smaller sisters. One day, while she and her siblings are on an outing with their father in his fourflippered submarine, Brunhilde sneaks off and floats away on the back of a jellyfish. After an encounter with a fishing trawler the net of which is scraping the trashstrewn bottom of the harbor, she ends up stuck in a glass jar. She drifts to the shore of a small fishing town and is found and rescued by a small boy named Ssuke. Shattering the jar open with a nearby rock, Ssuke cuts his finger in the process. Brunhilde licks his wound when he picks her up and the wound heals almost instantly, much to his surprise. After taking a great liking to her, and thinking her merely a goldfish, Ssuke renames her Ponyo and promises to protect her forever. Meanwhile, a distraught Fujimoto searches frantically for his taken daughter. Because of his own bad memories of the human world, he believes that Ssuke has kidnapped her and is in great danger, he calls his wave spirits to recover her. After the wave spirits retrieve Ponyo from Ssuke, he is heartbroken. He goes home with his mother, Lisa, who tries to cheer him up, to no avail.Back underwater, Ponyo and Fujimoto have an argument, during which Ponyo refuses to let her father call her by her birthname, Brunhilde. She declares her name to be Ponyo and voices her desire to become human, because she has started to fall in love with Ssuke. Suddenly, using her magic, she forces herself to grow leg and armlike appendages and start manifesting into a human, a power granted to her by the human blood she ingested when she licked Ssukes finger. Her alarmed father forces her to turn her back with some difficulty and goes to summon Ponyos mother, Granmamare. Meanwhile, Ponyo, with the help of her sisters, breaks away from her father and in the chaos inadvertently uses his magic to make herself fully human.

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