Ponyo is a 2008 animated film that was based from the story written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was produced under Studio Ghibli and was released last July of 2008 under the distribution of Toho and Walt Disney Pictures.
The plot of the story happened in Japan and revolves in a goldfish that did every possible thing she could do to reach her dream and to be with the person she cared for.
Ponyo was a female goldfish who lives with her father named Fujimoto together with her younger sisters. One day when her father was feeding other sea creatures with magic potion that keeps sea creatures healthy; Ponyo went to see a glimpse of the outside world. She was then accidentally caught by a fish trap and although she luckily escaped the fish trap, she got stranded on a shore near the town. A young boy named Sosuke then found her and rescued her. Ponyo and Sosuke became bestfriends and by the time when Ponyo’s father came to take back Ponyo, she deliberately did everything she could to be with Sosuke again.
The main characters of the film were voiced by Yuria Nara as the Japanese dubbed Ponyo and Noah Cyrus for the English dubbed, Hiroki Doi for the Japanese Sosuke and Frankie Jonas for the englich dubbed version.
The film earned an estimated gross revenue of $201,750,937 from the budget of $34 million and has received a lot of positive reviews from critics all worldwide
