{"id":122484,"date":"2024-05-13T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/?guid=8f8091854ceffddc1deeaa2c492011c0"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:00:38","slug":"discover-the-japanese-fishing-town-that-inspired-studio-ghiblis-ponyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/discover-the-japanese-fishing-town-that-inspired-studio-ghiblis-ponyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the Japanese fishing town that inspired Studio Ghibli\u2019s Ponyo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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S<\/span>hould it genuinely be the final film in Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s remarkable filmography, The Boy and The Heron<\/a> won\u2019t be a terrible way to bow out; carrying away Bafta and Academy Awards, grossing around $300 million, and bagging a rare perfect 5-5-5 score when reviewed for this very publication.<\/p>\n

That review lauded the film and others in the Studio Ghibli collection for their \u2018shifting moralities and motivations\u2019, flexible plotting and inscrutable world rules. Yet conversely, one aspect that consistently characterises much of Miyazaki\u2019s oeuvre \u2013 no matter how fantastical the story \u2013 is an authentic, tangible sense of location.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not unusual for Miyazaki and Ghibli\u2019s animation department to model these settings on real places; largely, but not necessarily, located in Japan. Yubaba\u2019s bathhouse in Spirited Away is the example that most readily springs to mind, inspired by the 1894-built D\u014dgo Onsen building. But these deeply authentic roots are always present, from the pan-European seaside cityscapes that backdrop Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/a> through to the mystical Kushiro wetlands of the Hiromasa Yonebayashi-directed When Marnie Was There<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Fujimoto\u2019s seafloor dwelling \u2013 a coral tower that is, part mad scientist laboratory and part magical marine farm \u2013 can only have been trawled from the depths of Miyazaki\u2019s ocean-like imagination, the landlubbing town in 2008\u2019s much-loved Ponyo is another location drawn from the director\u2019s own firsthand experience.<\/p>\n

Tomonoura is a town in the centre of the Seto Inland Sea, an hour or so due east of Hiroshima on Japan\u2019s biggest island, Honshu. Flicking through a well-thumbed guidebook during a cherry blossom spotting road trip this spring, I found myself drawn to the promised gorgeous views and treasures of this \u2018laconic fishing village\u2019. And when further reading revealed that the port town was portrayed in Ponyo<\/a>, the Japanese-speaking sat nav was duly set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though Miyazaki is a Tokyoite born and bred, he took a pleasure trip to Tomonoura after making Howl’s Moving Castle \u2013 and ended up staying for two months. It was in that period that he conjured the basic inspiration for Ponyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was the bay, docks, and the town sloping up into the mountains,\u201d remembers Noburi Yoshida, the film\u2019s Art Director, in the coffee table book \u2018The Art of Ponyo\u2019. \u201cThe way we rendered the colour of the not-so-blue sea, and the way the waves surge like huge shadows, were the results of our research trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s clear immediately when sweeping around the bay into Tomonoura (not quite at the breakneck speeds that Lisa risks in the film), is that the animation is no faithful recreation. There\u2019s no hulking dry dock or cute retirement home visible. But there are clear reference points to be discovered; ones that the cheerful custodians of the town\u2019s tourist information office are delighted to point out.<\/p>\n

Spot number one, they say, is the model for S\u00f4suke\u2019s idyllic cliff-side abode. Set slap bang in the middle of town rather than out on its own, it\u2019s immediately apparent why it stuck in Miyazaki\u2019s memory: a striking red roof in a sea of black. Yoshida explains, \u201cHe’s always liked red triangular roofs and also used them in My Neighbor Totoro. A house on a cliff with an ocean view. While S\u00f4suke’s house may be an inconvenient place to live (laughs), in a way, it may be an ideal landscape for Miyazaki.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the drizzly Honshu skies were enough to keep away many sightseers on the day I visited, the locals have become well accustomed to unfamiliar faces and snapping cameras. \u201cIt accounts for more than 20% of the total,\u201d Akihiko Kataoka, Director of the Tomonoura Tourist Information Center, tells me of the proportion of tourists flocking to his workplace in pursuit of Ponyo-based sights. \u201cNowadays, there are many young tourists, and the number of tourists is increasing worldwide \u2013 especially many French, UK and Southeast Asians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the animation even served as an unlikely source of inspiration for Hollywood location scouts. \u201cHugh Jackman’s Wolverine: Samurai [released as The Wolverine in the US and UK] also learned about this town from the production website of director Miyazaki’s Ponyo and chose it as a filming location,\u201d says Kataoka.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m next pointed along a jetty of bobbing boats towards a craggy set of rocks, that were Miyazaki\u2019s touchstone for the inlet where S\u00f4suke discovers his fishy friend. It would be disingenuous to say that it\u2019s instantly recognisable, but freighted with that information, one\u2019s imagination immediately visualises a five-year-old boy paddling out to investigate the alluring coral-coloured jar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It feels uncharitable to wonder where the bustling bay full of trawler boats and fishermen are \u2013 wouldn\u2019t Koichi be out there somewhere, flashing Morse-coded messages to Lisa and his son? It\u2019s undoubtedly picturesque, but not the hubbub of activity I had expected.<\/p>\n

And yet that\u2019s where the imagination begins to fill in the gaps once more. Imputing magic and meaning into the most benign of features. Perfectly abstract street tiles are suddenly, unmistakably the scales of a fish. The town\u2019s elderly women morph into spitting images of Yoshie, Noriko and the mildly terrifying Toki. And, surely not\u2026 do those waves have eyes?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kataoka-san describes the confidence and pride that Ponyo\u2019s association has given the residents of the town. So it is surprising how little Tomonoura has leant into its connection with the little fish from the deep blue sea. If this was a similar setting on England\u2019s Jurassic or North Sea coast, you feel, the cobbled streets would be lined with \u2018Ponyo Experience\u2019 museums, candle-powered boat trips, and family restaurants specialising only in ham. Here the odd Ponyo soft toy and pin badge are massively outnumbered by the amount of products featuring the region\u2019s medicinal-tasting Houmei liquor.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime in life is limited,\u201d says Kataoka, \u201cbut the beautiful nature and culture of this town will remain in the film.\u201d And, as dusk falls, I realise my own time here is also approaching an end.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, my route out of the town reveals two final treasures. The first couldn\u2019t be more obvious, as I drive through a road tunnel that is a clear model for the one in which Ponyo begins to revert to fish form in the film\u2019s last act.<\/p>\n

And then, driving just a few minutes more on the other side, the Abuto Kannon where sailors have prayed to the Goddess of Mercy for over a millennium. As the striking Buddhist temple stands sentry, jutting out from a headland over the Seto Inland Sea, it\u2019s only a minnow-sized stretch to associate its crimson lacquered facade with the fiery locks of Granmamare \u2013 Ponyo\u2019s matriarchal sea deity. And it\u2019s her serene, compassionate beauty that perhaps gives the most revealing clues as to the streams in Miyazaki\u2019s mind where Ponyo and Tomonoura meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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