Ponyo exhibition invites visitors into Hayao Miyazaki’s ocean world
The ‘Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo’ exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles includes rare artwork and production sketches
An immersive new exhibition devoted to Ponyo – Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn 2008 fantasy film about a goldfish-like girl yearning to be human – invites visitors, especially children, into his world through more than 100 original materials and hands-on animation tools.
Miyazaki, 85, is renowned as one of the world’s greatest animators and is widely regarded as “the Walt Disney of Japan”.
Ponyo, based on the 1837 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”, tells the story of a young goldfish-like princess living in the ocean who becomes stranded on land, where she is helped by a five-year-old human boy named Sosuke. As they bond, Ponyo desires to become a human girl.