Ponyo - The great adventure by the sea

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Anime movie
title Ponyo - The great adventure by the sea
Original title 崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ
transcription Gake no Ue no Ponyo
Logo Gake no Ue no Ponyo.svg
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2008
Studio Studio Ghibli
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Hayao Miyazaki
script Hayao Miyazaki
production Toshio Suzuki
music Joe Hisaishi
synchronization

Ponyo - The great adventure by the sea ( Japanese 崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ , Gake no Ue no Ponyo , Eng. "Ponyo on the cliff"), also known as Ponyo the enchanted goldfish girl , is an anime film from 2008. It was created in Studio Ghibli under the direction of Hayao Miyazakis .

content

A goldfish girl is held captive underwater by her father, the magician Fujimoto. But it flees from its home and is stranded on the coast. There it meets the boy Sōsuke, who calls her Ponyo, and the two become friends. Together with his mother Lisa they go to the day care center , Lisa works in the old people's home next door. When Sōsuke secretly goes to the water, Ponyo's father brings her back. Sōsuke, desperate about the loss of Ponyo, then goes to his mother, who tries to comfort him.

But Ponyo wants to become Sōsuke and human again. Because her father cannot dissuade her, he calls her mother, the sea goddess Granmammare. Meanwhile, Ponyo escapes with the help of her sisters and uses her father's magic to become human. But this throws the world out of balance and catastrophes grow stronger and stronger. When a storm rises, Lisa, Sōsuke and Ponyo are together in Sōsuke's house. But Lisa has to check the old people's home and the people there, while large parts of the island are flooded.

When Granmammare reaches Fujimoto, the moon is already out of its orbit and satellites are falling. She explains to him that Ponyo can stay human if she renounces magic and thereby restores world order. Meanwhile, Ponyo and Sōsuke, with the help of Ponyo's magic, set out to help Lisa in the storm. But in the flood, Ponyo resumes its fish shape and Fujimoto brings both of them to the nursing home. There Granmammare Sōsuke asks whether he would love Ponyo too if she were a fish or a mermaid . When he assures that he will love Ponyo in any form, she can take her human form again. In order to completely restore the equilibrium of the world, Ponyo renounces her magic. From now on, Ponyo lives with Lisa and Sōsuke. And the sea goddess Granmammare explains to the magician Fujimoto that she must be happy in her own way.

production

Nozomi Ōhashi with ponyo in the background in 2009

Originally, Hayao Miyazaki planned to make a film of Rieko Nakagawa 's children's book Iya Iya En ( い や い や え ん , German “the no-no day care center”). This is about a group of children from a day care center who are going on adventures across Japan. In 2001, two chapters were implemented by the Ghibli short film Kujira-tori ( く じ ら と り , German "whale hunt"). Director and screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki wanted to create another film based on Iya Iya En . After a company vacation at the studios in Tomonoura on the Seto Inland Sea coastal region , Miyazaki was enthusiastic about this region, so he stayed for two more months. After his stay there, he wanted to name the film Gake no Shita no Iya Iya En because his house was on a cliff ( gake no ue ). He also decided to set up a day care center for the children of his employees before he wanted to produce a film about a day care center.

Influences from The Little Mermaid were added to the plot , stripping off the Christian coloring, and the legend of Urashima Tarō , in which a young fisherman saves a small turtle that turns out to be the daughter of the sea ruler. Elements from Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre were also incorporated , not only musically, but also Ponyo's real name is Brünnhilde. The character Sōsuke is based on Miyazaki's son Gorō , the name comes from Natsume Sōseki's novel Mon , whose oeuvre Hayao Miyazaki read after The Moving Castle .

Work on the film began in October 2006. The animation was only carried out with cels , i.e. with hand-drawn individual images, without computer animation (the scenes in the first twelve seconds show many aquatic animals. For them alone, 1613 pages of sketches were required. 170,000 individual images were needed for the details). The hand drawings are justified by the fact that the hand-drawn images are more expressive and the computer animation quickly becomes outdated and sometimes looks unnatural.

Toshio Suzuki acted as the producer of the film . Noboru Yoshida was the artistic director . The music for the film was composed by Joe Hisaishi . The final title Gake no Ue no Ponyo comes from the singing duo Fujioka-Fujimaki and the child star Nozomi Ōhashi .

Publications and Success

The film is distributed in Japan by Toho and was released in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2008. It was shown in 481 cinemas, a record in Japan. In Japan, the film grossed over ten billion yen by August 2008 and 15.5 billion yen throughout 2008. The film also achieved great popularity in Japan, as did Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away . However, the success was not as great as expected: according to reports, not all movie theaters were full, unlike the studio's earlier films. The initially low success for Ghibli is also explained by the films about Pokémon and Hana Yori Dango shown at the same time . It would take five years before Kaze Tachinu - also by Hayao Miyazaki - a Japanese film broke the 10 billion yen mark again.

The film has been translated into English, Korean and Chinese. He took part in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2008 and was there among critics as a favorite for the Golden Lion , but ultimately received no award. As part of the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival , this film received the award in the AniMovie category for the best animated film. The film opened in the USA on August 14, 2009. The voice actors for the American dubbed version include Tina Fey , Noah Cyrus as Ponyo, Liam Neeson , Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett ; John Lasseter directed the dubbing . The film was released in German cinemas on September 16, 2010 under the title Ponyo - The Great Adventure by the Sea and is distributed by Universum Film . The publication was initially planned for 2009 by Constantin Film under the title Ponyo the enchanted goldfish girl . On March 18, 2011, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on the Universum Anime label .

In Japan, an art book for the film was published in August 2008 with the title Gake no ue no Ponyo - Artbook: The Art of Ponyo on a Cliff .

synchronization

The film was dubbed at PPA Film in Munich . Pierre Peters-Arnolds wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker English speaker
Brunhilde / Ponyo Yuria Nara Alina friend Noah Cyrus
Sōsuke Hiroki Doi Nick Romeo Reimann Frankie Jonas
Toki Kazuko Yoshiyuki Eva-Maria Lahl Lily Tomlin
Fujimoto George Tokoro Christian Tramitz Liam Neeson
Kōichi Kazushige Nagashima Claus-Peter Damitz Matt Damon
Yoshie Tomoko Naraoka Uschi Wolff Betty White
Lisa Tomoko Yamaguchi Anja Kling Tina Fey
Granmanmare Yūki Amami Solveig Duda Cate Blanchett

reception

In Japan

Japanese critics criticized that the plot was overly dramatized and contained too many different elements. According to some critics, the film heralds the end of the successful Ghibli films. Nevertheless, the use of hand-drawn images was praised, as was the watercolor-like coloring, which was new for Ghibli. The plot is imaginative and even lighter than in My Neighbor Totoro , thus forming a contrast to Hayao Miyazaki's films that have recently become darker. With Ponyo , Miyazaki is returning to children's films.

International

Western critics named family, mother-child relationship, children's fear of loss, separation and mortality as well as environmental pollution as the main themes of the film. The film is made especially for children, for whom the identification is perfect, but older viewers also get their money's worth. Children's feelings would be portrayed without sentimentality and cheesy music. The plot will end Disney-like with a happy ending. The “beauty of simple contours and pastel tones” , “wonderful hand-drawn pictures” and figures that are designed according to their character as well as their “disarming cuteness” are also praised .

In German-speaking countries

Andreas Platthaus writes of a relatively low success of the film in Japan as well, because for the first time it adopts a “narrative attitude that is exclusively oriented towards the child audience” . The film shows that Miyazaki's hope for a better world rests solely on the children. Despite individual eerie or adult details, the dialogues remained simple and with simple person constellations because of the childish protagonists. In the animation of the characters, the Studio Ghibli lagged behind the standard, even if the hand-drawn backgrounds remained unmatched. For Platthaus, the film shows that Studio Ghibli has not developed anything new since the 1990s and that Miyazaki is increasingly taking a back seat.

For Susanne Ostwald from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Ponyo Miyazaki shows "at the height of his art" . The film offers a “magical visual language” with “visual virtuosity, captivating beauty, exuberant humor and deep humanity” . The world writes about the film as the first highlight of the Venice Film Festival. Miyazaki tackles problematic topics such as "environmental pollution, ecological catastrophe and tsunami trauma as a matter of course" and thus once again relieves the animated film from its apparently traditional children's genre . The Austrian standard also emphasizes these topics, which are conveyed in an engaging and believable way.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ 「崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ」 舞台 は 残 っ た。 「鞆 の 浦」 埋 め 立 て 計画 を 正式 撤回 . The Huffington Post Japan, Ltd., February 15, 2016, accessed July 21, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b Interview with producer Toshio Suzuki ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at GhibliWorld.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ghibliworld.com
  4. ↑ 海 辺 の 小 さ な 町 . In: 映 画 「崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ」 公式 サ イ ト (Official website for the film). Studio Ghibli, accessed August 10, 2009 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ “ワ ー グ ナ ー の「 ワ ル キ ュ ー レ 」” を 聴 き な が ら . In: 映 画 「崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ」 公式 サ イ ト (Official website for the film). Studio Ghibli, accessed August 10, 2009 (Japanese).
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  7. ↑ “夏目漱石” に 意外 な ル ー ツ . In: 映 画 「崖 の 上 の ポ ニ ョ」 公式 サ イ ト (Official website for the film). Studio Ghibli, accessed August 10, 2009 (Japanese).
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  15. ↑ AnimeY for the publication of the art book
  16. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Ponyo - The great adventure by the sea. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  17. ↑ a b 'Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea' brings in 15 billion yen during opening weekend ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Japan News Review, July 25, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.japannewsreview.com
  18. ↑ Mark Schilling: It's kids' play for anime king. In: The Japan Times , June 11, 2008.
  19. ↑ Andrew Pulver: Ponyo On the Cliff By the Sea In: The Guardian , September 4, 2008 (English).
  20. ↑ Olivier Bombarda: Perhaps the lion will become a fish ... ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: arte.tv , September 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  21. ↑ Venice Film Festival: Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea , Daily Telegraph, David Gritten, September 1, 2008
  22. ^ Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea , TIMESOnline, Wendy Ide, September 1, 2008
  23. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : Dare to fish is only half won. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 18, 2010.
  24. ↑ Susanne Ostwald: In the magic realm of the sea. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Susanne Ostwald.
  25. ↑ Charlize Theron and a Tsunami of Love , Welt Online on the Venice Film Festival 2008
  26. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: Wise message for humanity. In: Der Standard , August 31, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Ponyo  - collection of images, videos and audio files