Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

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Movie: Ponyo on the Cliff / Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Romaji: Gake no ue no Ponyo
Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Producer: Toshio Suzuki
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Release Date: July 19, 2008
Runtime: 100 min.
Movie Studio: Studio Ghibli
Distributor: Toho Company Ltd.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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Ponyo on the Cliff is the first film in four years from the Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. The film eschews computer graphics altogether and instead uses primal hand-drawings. There were a record high 170,000 hand-drawn pictures to animate the characters and it took the one and a half years for the 70 staff members to draw.

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Inspired by the fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the film tells the story of a fish-girl, Ponvo, realizing her dream of becoming a human being with the help of a five-year-old boy, Sosuke.