PONYO ON THE CLIFF

PONYO (US title for GAKE NO UE NO PONYO [2008]), vt PONYO ON THE CLIFF (International: English title). Hayao Miyazaki, dir. and script. Produced in Japan in Japanese; English-dubbed version released 2009. Consult IMDb for the highly complex production and distribution .

See for the submarine of the Prospero-like wizard/scientist Fujimoto. It appears as a combination of a mechanical craft with giant fins Jim Clark says look like "the paddles of plesiosaurs. Overall the craft looks like a short-necked type of plesiosaur called a pliosaur. The small rudder-like appendage hanging down under the tail of the thing has no analogous structure among mesozoic marine reptiles that I know of; I think it's just a rudder [...]." As of August 2009, an image of the ships findable with a Google search for "Ponyo" under Images and "Ponyo Official Trailer" under Videos (2 min. 50 seconds into trailer); also check YouTube.

5. DRAMA, RDE, 29/VIII/09; RDE/Jim Clark, 2/IX/09