Ponyo

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Animated still from Ponyo by Hayao Miyazaki showing Ponyo, a young girl with red hair and a pink dress, joyfully running atop large, stylized ocean waves during a storm.

Animated scene from Ponyo directed by Hayao Miyazaki, showing Ponyo, a goldfish with a human face and red hair, swimming underwater with many smaller Ponyos and large blue sea creatures.

Ponyo

film by Miyazaki [2008]

Also known as: “Gake no ue no Ponyo”

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- Miyazaki Hayao
  Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo
  …no ue no Ponyo (2008; Ponyo) was targeted to a younger audience than were most Miyazaki films, but nevertheless it was the top Japanese box-office draw of 2008. Miyazaki later cowrote the screenplays for the Studio Ghibli releases Karigurashi no Arietti (2010; The Secret World of Arrietty), which was based…
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  …no ue no Ponyo (2008; Ponyo) was targeted to a younger audience than were most Miyazaki films, but nevertheless it was the top Japanese box-office draw of 2008. Miyazaki later cowrote the screenplays for the Studio Ghibli releases Karigurashi no Arietti (2010; The Secret World of Arrietty), which was based…
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- Studio Ghibli
  International success and later works
  …no ue no Ponyo (2008; Ponyo), Kaze tachinu (2013; The Wind Rises), and Kaguyahime no monogatari (2013; The Tale of the Princess Kaguya).
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  …no ue no Ponyo (2008; Ponyo), Kaze tachinu (2013; The Wind Rises), and Kaguyahime no monogatari (2013; The Tale of the Princess Kaguya).
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