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AKA:
Gake no ue no Ponyo
Ponyo on the Cliff (International) (literal English title) (English title)
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (International) (English title)
Ponyo sur la falaise (France)
Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project (International) (working title) (English title)
"Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" - the newest masterpiece of the world famous animation creators of Studio Ghibli consorts in its brilliant way with Miyazaki's former well-known classic movies. And again the fantastic Soundtrack plays the decisive role to catch the audience into the wonderful story about little Ponyo and his friend by using a full orchestra and choir, with special solos for violin and piano. An outstanding movie- and music highlight with an enormous entertainment value for all generations!
The Movie:
"Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" is Miyazaki's own unique take on Hans Christian Anderson's tale, "The Little Mermaid" which exceeded already all expectations for the cinema box-offices results in Japan and was highly praised by the critics at the 65.Venice International Film Festival.
The movie tells the story of a young girl fish who defies her father's wishes and beliefs about the human world to live with the boy she loves. After covertly travelling to the surface by jellyfish, Ponyo becomes stranded near a house on a seaside cliff, where she is found and rescued by a human boy named Sosuke. Sosuke starts to show her his little world when Ponyo's father discovers her missing and looks for her to return to the sea with him. But Ponyo belongs to Sosuke…
The Composer:
Joe Hisaishi, born 1950, started his career as a composer of modern music when he was still a student at the Kunitachi Collage of Music and released his first album, "Information" in 1982.
In 1983, he was recommended by a record company to create the Image Album for "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind". Ghibli's grandmaster Miyazaki was entirely impressed with his work for the Image Album.
From that time, Hisaishi also composed the beautiful and unforgettable music for "Laputa", "Kiki", "Porco Rosso", "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away", and "Howl's Moving Castle". His music played a very important role in all these movies. Until today he has also released many other albums, and he worked as the executive producer at and wrote the theme song for the 1998 Nagano Paralympics.
The creative partnership between filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and composer Joe Hisaishi, is one of the most fruitful and fulfilling in all of film music.
The Soundtrack:
The Soundtrack Album of "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" includes 36 Tracks taken from the Original Animation Movie on one CD. In this excellent score the music of "Ponyo" is at once charming and memorable. The remarkable aspect of "Ponyo" is the amount of themes that Hisaishi melds into the score, like cascades of magic generating an overall feeling of a positive nature. At its core, the movie has a sweet message, thus the music does its best to create a score that fits this essence. To do that, Hisaishi brings out several fairy tale inspired motifs that interchange seamlessly during this lush and expressive soundtrack.
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