Ponyo on the Cliff
- IMDb link: 0876563
- IMDb rating: 7.6 (184,875 votes)
- Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation, Family
- Director: Hayao Miyazaki
- Cast: Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Yuki Amami, George Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima and others
- Release date: 14 Aug 2009
- Release year: 2008
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Keywords: studio ghibli, sea goddess, magical realism, tsunami, small town, retirement home, mother daughter relationship, fishing town, family relationships, wanting to be human
Plot:
The son of a sailor, 5-year-old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.