Ponyo (2008)
崖の上のポニョ
Gake no ue no Ponyo 2008
Miyazaki, one of the most famous cartoonists of the Japanese anime world and a master of dream projection and magic with an unlimited imagination, welcomes anime lovers with his eighth and final film, The Little Mermaid Ponyo. Considered the greatest animation artist in the world, Miyazaki has a significant fan base in our country with his films such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro. In Miyazaki's cinema, he questions reality, everyday life and adulthood; Ghibli, which is the Italian word for the hot wind blowing in the Sahara Desert and is the nickname of an Italian military plane used in World War II, returns to directing with a film he produced after 4 years. A characteristic feature of Miyazaki's films that find it difficult to include men in their stories is that their characters are girls. The master, who did not break this tradition with The Little Mermaid Ponyo, only this time puts the mermaid in the lead role. Ponyo is a goldfish who wears a red dress and wants to be human. Five-year-old Sosuke, who lives on a cliff overlooking the inland sea, meets Ponyo one morning while playing on a rocky beach, with her hair buried in a jam jar. Sosuke saves it and puts it in a plastic bucket. Over time, Ponyo and Sousuke fall in love with each other. Sosuke tells Ponyo not to be afraid and will protect him. But one day, human Ponyo's father, Fujimoto, forces him to return to the ocean. Ponyo says he wants to be human and unintentionally upsets the ecological balance of the world. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the Japanese folk tale Urashima Taro, Miyazaki's drawings, colors and sensibility revolutionized the box office in Japan, and is a must-see for moviegoers.
Miyazaki, one of the most famous cartoonists of the Japanese anime world and a master of dream projection and magic with an unlimited imagination, welcomes anime lovers with his eighth and final film, The Little Mermaid Ponyo. Considered the greatest animation artist in the world, Miyazaki has a significant fan base in our country with his films such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro. In Miyazaki's cinema, he questions reality, everyday life and adulthood; Ghibli, which is the Italian word for the hot wind blowing in the Sahara Desert and is the nickname of an Italian military plane used in World War II, returns to directing with a film he produced after 4 years. A characteristic feature of Miyazaki's films that find it difficult to include men in their stories is that their characters are girls. The master, who did not break this tradition with The Little Mermaid Ponyo, only this time puts the mermaid in the lead role. Ponyo is a goldfish who wears a red dress and wants to be human. Five-year-old Sosuke, who lives on a cliff overlooking the inland sea, meets Ponyo one morning while playing on a rocky beach, with her hair buried in a jam jar. Sosuke saves it and puts it in a plastic bucket. Over time, Ponyo and Sousuke fall in love with each other. Sosuke tells Ponyo not to be afraid and will protect him. But one day, human Ponyo's father, Fujimoto, forces him to return to the ocean. Ponyo says he wants to be human and unintentionally upsets the ecological balance of the world. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the Japanese folk tale Urashima Taro, Miyazaki's drawings, colors and sensibility revolutionized the box office in Japan, and is a must-see for moviegoers.
