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...news of a four-year-old running, let alone swimming, away from home would upset any parent. But Ponyo's dad, Fujimoto (George Tokoro), isn't just any parent. He's the king of the sea, at least in these parts, and quite the dude. With his gaunt face, form-fitting red-and-white-striped jacket, flowing seaweed hair and a perpetually haggard look, he suggests an underwater rock star; he could be the Ron Wood of the deep. Fujimoto calls himself an "ex-human" (apparently he's undergone a sea-change operation) and has the imperious zeal...
...Ponyo nicely portrays the agitation of a wife raising two kids (one of them part-piscine) while her husband's away; but for long stretches, when Koichi's life is imperiled by the storm, the movie forgets about him - perhaps because he's doing a bit of illegal whaling. Fujimoto's wife, Gran Mamare, is a magnificent sea goddess, with the perfect posture and forehead jewel of a Bollywood queen, but she doesn't show up till late in the film. Miyazaki also creates a tsunami that, however fantastical and benign he portrays it, can't help recall the fatal...
...Marshall called us in to quiz us about our loyalty to the United States,” remembers Fujimoto. “I tried quizzing them back, but they never answered...
...Nobody knew what it was,” says Fujimoto, “but if you didn’t want to fight, that was the best way. Of my friends, I was the only one who applied and was turned down...
...Fujimoto lives in a San Diego retirement home that, he says, “reminds me of my days in Leverett.” “Tiny rooms, light housekeeping, small tables. The average age is 86, which is the same as the average age of my classmates from Harvard. It’s a lot like coming home...