Ponyo (2008) movie poster

Ponyo (2008)

崖の上のポニョ
"Welcome to a world where anything is possible."
ThumbScore
👍 90%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
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Director
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
G
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (4,735 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
86

Cast

Yuria Kozuki as Ponyo (voice)
Hiroki Doi as Sosuke (voice)
George Tokoro as Fujimoto (voice)
Tomoko Yamaguchi as Risa (voice)
Yuki Amami as Gran Mamare (voice)
Kazushige Nagashima as Koichi (voice)
Akiko Yano as Ponyo's Sister (voice)
Shin'ichi Hatori as Anchorman (voice)

Is Ponyo good?

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#52 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#9 / 208 · 2008
Rank among its director's films
#8 / 12 · Hayao Miyazaki

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Ponyo is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The film follows Ponyo, a goldfish princess — the daughter of the ocean sorcerer Fujimoto and the sea goddess Granmamare — who befriends a five-year-old boy named Sosuke when she is washed ashore near his clifftop home. Ponyo's desire to become human and stay with Sosuke disrupts the natural balance, causing the ocean to rise and threatening to flood the world.

Hayao Miyazaki deliberately eschewed CGI in favor of entirely hand-drawn animation, creating one of the most visually stunning oceanic landscapes in animation history — the waves, rendered as living, fishlike entities, were drawn with an expressionistic freedom that made the ocean feel sentient and magical. Ponyo earned $201 million worldwide, the majority from Japan where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of the year. Joe Hisaishi's joyful, childlike score and the unforgettably catchy "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" theme song became beloved in Japan.

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