Ponyo in 35mm

Ponyo focuses on the friendship between 5-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Brunhilde, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After wandering away from her father’s four-flippered submarine, Brunhilde washes ashore and is discovered by the curious Sosuke. Now renamed Ponyo, she forms a quick bond with Sosuke that fuels her yearning to be a real girl, and together they shoulder the cost of what that might take. The vibrant and colorful hand-drawn animations are a delight for audiences of all ages, as Hayao Miyazaki builds a world filled with magical goldfish, spellcasters, and sea goddesses in this tale of how friendships can blossom anywhere—even in the ocean’s depths.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

2008 | 103 min. | Japan | Color | Japanese with English subtitles| Rated G | 35mm

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki 

WITH: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yuki Amami, George Tokoro 

New subtitled print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, with special thanks to Studio Ghibli.