By Mizuki Yamakawa 6T

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Table of ContentsTable of Contents

1. Movie Summary2. Movie Facts3. Animation Facts4. Characters/ Voice actors5. Company6. Bibliography

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Movie SummaryMovie Summary

The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One day, he finds a goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and 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. The two children on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.

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Movie FactsMovie Facts

Director: Hayao MiyazakiRuntime: 103 min Release Date: 19 July 2008 (Japan)Writer: Hayao Miyazaki is the Japanese writer for the Ponyo. Melissa Matheson, the writer of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), wrote the English translation script for the American version.Sosuke is based on Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro Miyazaki, when he was five years old.Sosuke is named after a character of Soseki Natsume, Japanese literary magnate. In that novel "the Gate", central male character (Sosuke) lives in a house that stands on a hill; Gake no ue.

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Animation FactsAnimation Facts

The film uses a watercolor and pastel like animation styleMore than 160,000 animation cels were created for the filmThe opening 12 seconds, involving vast schools of fish and undersea creatures, required 1613 pages of conceptual sketches to develop This was the first animated film to be nominated for and win the Best Film Score prize at the Japanese Academy Awards

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Character/ Voice actorsCharacter/ Voice actors

Sosuke- Hiroki Doi Frankie Jonas

Ponyo- Yuria Nara Noah Lindsey Cyrus

Singers of Ponyo

Japanese- Nozomi Ohashi, FujiokaFujimaki English- Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Frankie Jonas6

CompanyCompany

Studio Ghibli 

Movies they have made in the past years: My Neighbor Totoro (1988 April 16)Panda! Go Panda!, (1972)Heidi, Girl of the Alps(1974)Headquarter: Koganei, Tokyo, JapanAwards they have received: Animage Anime Grand Prix award including Laputa:Castle in the Sky in 1986My Neighbor Totoro in 1988, and Kiki's Delivery Service in 1989In 2002, Spirited Away won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the first, and thus far only, anime film to win an Academy AwardNumber of people working in the company: 300 peopleCapital stock: 10,000,000Founded: 1985, JuneFounder: Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

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BibliographyBibliography

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskgNOXbdiE

http://photobucket.com/images/ponyo/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli

Thank you!

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