Ponyo

Ponyo - The Big Adventure at Sea (Japanese崖の上のポニョ, Gake no Ue no Ponyo, dt " Ponyo on the Cliff " ), also known as Ponyo the enchanted goldfish girl is an anime movie from the year 2008. It originated in the Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki directed.

Content

A goldfish girl being held by his father, the magician Fujimoto, trapped under water. But it flees from his home and is stranded on the coast. There it meets a boy Sōsuke, who called Ponyo, and the two become friends. Together with his mother Lisa Drive them into the daycare, Lisa worked in the nursing home next door. As Sōsuke secretly goes to the water, Ponyo 's father brings her back. Sōsuke, distraught over the loss of Ponyo, then goes to his mother trying to comfort him.

But Ponyo wants to be back to Sōsuke and a man. Because her father she can not be dissuaded, he calls her mother, the sea goddess Granmammare. Meanwhile, Ponyo manages to escape with the help of her sisters and uses the magic of her father to be a man. But thus gets the world out of balance and there is ever increasing disasters. When a storm comes up, Lisa, Sōsuke and Ponyo are common in Sosuke house. But Lisa has seen in the old people's home and according to the people there, during which large parts of the island flooded.

As Granmammare Fujimoto achieved already gets the moon out of its orbit and satellite crash. She tells him that Ponyo could remain human, if they renounce magic and thereby the world order would be restored. Meanwhile, Ponyo and Sōsuke break, with the help of Ponyo magic, in order to help Lisa by storm. But in the flood take Ponyo back their fish shape and both are taken to the nursing home by Fujimoto. There is Granmammare Sōsuke the question of whether he would love Ponyo even if she were a fish or a mermaid. When he assured them to love in any form, Ponyo can again take on human form and the balance of the world is restored.

Production

Originally Hayao Miyazaki before, Rieko Nakagawa's children's book Iya Iya En (いやいやえん, dt " the no-no - center ' ) in filming. This is about a group of children in a day care center, the adventures throughout Japan. In 2001, two chapters by the Ghibli short film Kujira - tori (くじら とり, dt " whaling " ) implemented. Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki wanted to create a Iya Iya En -based movie again. After operating the holiday studios at the coast of Seto Inland Miyazaki was inspired by this region, so he stayed for two more months. After his stay there, he wanted to call the film Gake no Shita no Iya Iya En, there was his house on a cliff ( gake no ue). He also decided to first set up a day care center for the children of his employees before he wanted to produce a film about a daycare.

Then influences came to be added plot of The Little Mermaid, including stripping the Christian coloring, and the legend of Urashima taro in which a young fisherman rescues a small turtle, which turns out to be a daughter of the sea ruler. However, it also flowed elements of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre with one, not only musically, but also Ponyo true name is Brunnhilde. The figure Sōsuke is based on Miyazaki's son Gorō, the name comes from Natsume Sōsekis novel Mon, whose oeuvre Hayao Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle was reading.

With the work on the film began in October 2006. The animation was done only with Cels, that is with hand-drawn frames without computer animation. The reason given is that the hand-drawn images are more expressive and computer animation to quickly outdated and partially unnatural am working.

As the film's producer Toshio Suzuki acted. The artistic director Noboru Yoshida held. The music of the film composed by Joe Hisaishi. The credits 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 came on July 19, 2008 in Japanese theaters. He was shown in 481 cinemas, a record in Japan. In Japan, the film played to August 2008 already more than ten billion yen and 15.5 billion in all of 2008 yen. Also, the film reached a great popularity, as Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away Country in Japan. However, the success was not as great as expected: after all movie theaters reports were not filled, in contrast to the earlier films of the studio. The initially low for Ghibli success is also explained by the films to Hana Yori Dango Pokémon and shown simultaneously. It should take five years to Kaze with Tachinu - also by Hayao Miyazaki - a Japanese film again the 10 billion yen mark broke.

The film has been translated into English, Korean and Chinese. He participated in the International Film Festival in Venice in 2008 in the contest and was there among critics as a favorite to win the Golden Lion, but finally received no award. As part of the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart this film received the award in the field AniMovie for Best Animated Film. In the U.S., the film was launched on August 14, 2009 Among the speakers of the American dubbed version include Tina Fey, Noah Cyrus as Ponyo, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett. ; Synchronous directed by John Lasseter. The film was released on 16 September 2010 under the title Ponyo - The great adventure on the sea in the German cinema, it is distributed by Universum Film. The release was initially planned for 2009 by Constantin Film titled Ponyo the enchanted goldfish girl. On 18 March 2011, the film was released by the label universe Anime on DVD and Blu -ray.

Synchronization

Reception

In Japan

Made by Japanese critics complain that the act is too strong dramatized and contained too many different elements. According to some critics, the film rang the end of a successful Ghibli movies. Nevertheless, the use of hand-drawn images was praised, as well as for new Ghibli, watercolor -like coloring. The plot is imaginative and still lighter than My Neighbor Totoro, consequently, it constitutes also a contrast to the last gloomy become movies Hayao Miyazaki. With Miyazaki Ponyo return to the children's films.

Internationally

From western critics are cited as themes of the film, especially family, mother-child relationship, fear of children against losses, separations and mortality as well as environmental pollution. The film was made ​​especially for children for whom the identification was perfect, but older viewers come at their expense. The feelings of children would be presented without sentimentality and kitsch music. The act is Disney -like end with a happy ending. Blessed also is the "beauty of simple contours and pastel shades ", " beautiful hand- drawn images " and figures, which were designed according to their character and their " disarming cuteness ".

In German-speaking

Andreas Platthaus writes of a relatively low success of the film in Japan because it " takes narrative approach, which is based solely on the child's audience " for the first time a. In this show the film that Miyazaki's hope for a better world rests solely on the children. Despite some eerie or adult details left because of the childlike protagonist dialogues but plain and simple persons constellations. In the animation of the figures, the Studio Ghibli lagging behind the standard, even if the hand-drawn backgrounds remained unmatched. For Platthaus see the movie that Studio Ghibli has developed nothing new since the 1990s, and Miyazaki more and more step into the background.

For Susanne Ostwald from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Miyazaki Ponyo points to " the height of his art." The film offers a " magical imagery " with " visual virtuosity, bewitching beauty, exuberant humor and deep humanity." The world writes about the film as the first highlight of the film festival in Venice. Miyazaki summarize problematic issues such as " pollution, ecological catastrophe and tsunami trauma as a matter of course on" and relieved it " the animation so that even his seemingly traditional children 's genre". The Austrian standard highlights these issues that would be transported gorgeous and believable.