Ponyo
A curious five‑year-old boy befriends a mysterious goldfish‑girl who can become human, and must shield her from a desperate wizard and the raging ocean before she’s forced back to the deep forever.
“Welcome to a world where anything is possible.”
Synopsis
When Sosuke, a young boy living on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he uncovers more than he expected. Ponyo is a curious and energetic young creature who longs to become human. As she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, plots to return Ponyo to the sea.
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Principal cast & crew: 33
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Craft leads on file
Edited by Hayao MiyazakiShot by Atsushi OkuiScored by Joe Hisaishi
Box Office
2008 · Box office
💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.0× its budget
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Worldwide gross
$202.4M
US & Canada: $15.1M — 7% of worldwide · International: $187.3M (93%)
Re-release box office
- 2018757 theaters
- $935K($1.2M today)
Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation
Full synopsis
Also known as
- Gake no Ue no Ponyode
- Ponyode
- Ponyo - Das große Abenteuer am Meerde
- Ponyo – Das grosse Abenteuer am Meerde
- Ponyo das verzauberte Goldfischmädchende
- Ponyo on Cliff by the Seade
- Ponyoen
- Ponyo on the Cliffen
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Seaen
- Ponyo en el acantiladoes
- Ponyo sur la falaisefr
- Ponyo sulla scoglierait
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Cast & Crew
33 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Tomoko Yamaguchi
as Risa
Yuria Kozuki
as Ponyo (voice)
Kazushige Nagashima
as Kôichi
Hiroki Doi
as Sosuke (voice)
Yuki Amami
as Granmamare
George Tokoro
as Fujimoto (voice)
Yuria Nara
as Ponyo
Rumi Hiiragi
as Fujin
Akiko Yano
as Ponyo's Sister (voice)
Shin Ichi Hatori
as Anchorman (voice)
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
as Toki
Tokie Hidari
as Kayo (voice)
Supporting cast
14Tomoko Naraoka
as Yoshie
Eimi Hiraoka
as Kumiko (voice)
Nozomi Ohashi
as Karen (voice)
Akiko Takeguchi
as Noriko (voice)
Eiko Kanazawa
as (voice)
Akihiko Ishizumi
as (voice)
Tomie Kataoka
as (voice)
Shirou Saitou
as (voice)
Mutsumi Sasaki
as (voice)
Keiko Tsukamoto
as (voice)
Ikuko Yamamoto
as (voice)
Michiko Yamamoto
as (voice)
Yoshie Yamamoto
as (voice)
Yusuke Tezuka
as (voice)
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1Writers
1Producers
2Other crew
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