Ponyo (Gake no ue no Ponyo)

[YoshidaYui]

From the Academy Award -winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes PONYO, a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid.
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Hayao Miyazaki is the most innovative animator since Walt Disney in part because he appeals to children and adults alike. After the thematic complexities of Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, he delivers a decidedly simpler piece in Ponyo: evoking earlier works like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service aimed primarily at younger children.

The arc cribs liberally from The Little Mermaid, with a magical girl who just wants to be human and various forces trying to stop her. But Miyazaki retains a much sweeter tone than Hans Christian Andersen. Ponyo's father wishes to return her to his ocean home, eventually resulting in a calamitous merging of the sea and surface worlds. But he doesn't act out of malice--merely a father's protectiveness--and while things go wrong, they produce more wonder and awe than actual danger.

* Noah Cyrus - Ponyo (English Version)
* Yuria Nara - Ponyo
* Frankie Jonas - Sosuke (English Version)
* Hiroki Doi - Sosuke
* Tina Fey - Lisa (English Version)
* Tomoko Yamaguchi - Lisa
* Matt Damon - Koichi (English Version)
* Kazushige Nagashima - Koichi
* Cate Blanchett - Gran Mamare (English Version)
* Yuki Amami - Granmammare
* Liam Neeson - Fujimoto (English Version)
* George Tokoro - Fujimoto
* Betty White - Yoshie (English Version)
* Lily Tomlin - Toki (English Version)
* Cloris Leachman - Noriko (English Version)
* Kurt Knutsson - The Newscaster (English Version)
* Jenessa Rose - Kumiko (English Versio

* Hayao Miyazaki - Director, Screenwriter
* Toshio Suzuki - Producer
* Frank Marshall - Executive Producer
* John Lasseter - Executive Producer, Voice Director
* Kathleen Kennedy - Executive Producer
* Koji Hoshino - Executive Producer
* Brad Lewis - Voice Director
* Jim Hubbert - Translator
* Joe Hisaishi - Composer (Music Score)
* Katsuya Kondo - Animator
* Kevin Reher - Associate Producer
* Melissa Mathison - Screen Story
* Natalie Lyon - Casting
* Noburo Yoshida - Background Artist
* Paul Cichocki - Associate Producer
* Peter Sohn - Voice Director
* Shuji Inoue - Sound/Sound Designer
* Takeshi Seyama - Editor

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. EVERY Miyazaki movie is a masterpiece.

My two favorites ( I can't come up with just one) are Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.