While driving Lisa comments on how pretty she looks. Lisa drives away before he can say anything else. Sōsuke’s mother Lisa thinks it’s weed killer but Fujimoto tells her that it’s ocean water. Sōsuke meets Ponyo and places in her a bucket.įujimoto using a water canister sprays water so he can walk on land. Meanwhile Fujimoto is looking for her and his waves tell him, he believes she has been kidnapped. Brunhilde licks his wound causing it to heal almost instantly. Shattering the jar open with a rock, Sōsuke cuts his finger in the process. After an encounter with a fishing trawler, she drifts to the shore of a small fishing town in a glass jar where she is rescued by a five-year-old boy named 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. Fujimoto, a once-human wizard/scientist, lives underwater along with his daughter, Brunhilde, and her numerous smaller sisters.

The plot centers on a goldfish named Brunhilde and a boy named Sōsuke who renames her Ponyo. On March 6, 2008, producer Toshio Suzuki announced that Akiko Yano would be performing for the film as well.Ī two-part documentary about Ponyo was broadcast on NHK on Maand August 5, 2008, How Ponyo Was Born, an extensive 12-hour and 30 minutes documentary was released on DVD on Decemby Walt Disney Japan.įleeing her overbearing father, little Ponyo floats away on a jellyfish. The official website for Ponyo also opened on December 5, 2007. The theme song for Ponyo was performed by Fujioka Fujimaki (famous duo Takaaki Fujioka and Naoya Fujimaki) and Nozomi Ohashi, who was only eight years old at the time of the film's production. In pursuing her goal, she befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke. The plot centers on a goldfish named Ponyo who desperately wants to be a human. It is Miyazaki's eighth film to be made under the studio, and his first feature-length film since Howl's Moving Castle released four years prior. It was released by Toho on July 19, 2008, in theatres across Japan. US$201.8 million (worldwide) Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ, Gake no Ue no Ponyo), released in Japan as Ponyo on the Cliff, is an animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

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