YONA YONA PENGUIN — THE OPENING FILM
Director: Rintaro
Country: France, Japan
Year Of Production: 2009
Duration: 88 Minutes
Technique: 3D Animation in the Japanese Traditional Style

Synopsis:
Every night, Coco slips out of her house and explores, dressed in a special penguin suit — a present from her long-lost father. She's convinced that, one day, it will allow her to fly. "You told me penguins could fly... didn't you?" Since Coco was wearing the "special penguin suit", a Goblin kid Chaley misguidedly thought she was "the brave flightless bird" and took her to a strange underground world. Coco was very much welcomed in the Goblin Village. However, demons and Zammie — the chubby mystery boy, got in her way. Coco found out that the Goblins, once beloved by humans, were now in danger of being taken over as slaves by the emperor of darkness, Bucca-Boo. What is "the brave flightless bird"? Does anyone know what Zammie's true identity is? And after all, can Coco and Chaley save the Goblin village?

Synopsis:
It 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 names her Ponyo, and takes her to his school in a bucket, and shows her to the little old ladies who live in the nursing home where his mother, Lisa, works. Imajine Sosuke's surprise when Ponyo speaks, and tells him that she likes him. It isn't long before Ponyo's father, Fujimoto, discovers that she is missing, and goes looking for her. Fujimoto is a kindly, yet somewhat xenophobic sea wizard, who oddly enough goes about in human form. He recovers Ponyo and returns to the sea with her, much to Sosuke's distress. He gives Ponyo a good talking to, but is disconcerted when she not only defies him, but begins to transform herself into a human. Fujimoto uses his magic to stop her, and essentially imprisons her. On the surface, there is a bittersweet moment when Sosuke and Lisa find out that his father, a crewman on a ship, is unable to return home that day. This leads to a series of testy messages from Lisa, delivered by Aldis lamp, but Sosuke manages to cheer her up, though he is still desolated by Ponyo's disappearance.

Ponyo's sisters, meanwhile, free her from Fujimoto's prison and help her to steal some of their father's magic, so that she can complete her transformation and escape to the surface. This has an immediate knock-on effect of causing a heavy sea storm above. In the midst of this storm, Ponyo and Sosuke are happily reunited. There follows a series of humorous vignettes with Ponyo not-quite-managing to learn to act human, mainly by copying Sosuke. In the morning, however, they discover that the town is flooded, and the citizens have had to take to boats. Ponyo helps Sosuke find a boat, and the two set off to find Lisa, who had left during the storm. The effects of Ponyo's stolen magic cause progressively worse effects, including knocking the moon out of its orbit. This eventually compells Ponyo's mother, a gentle giantess, to intervene and set things right. Sosuke and Lisa are re-united, but Ponyo is again recaptured and returned to fish form. This leads to a meeting between Sosuke and Ponyo's mother, where she gently asks him if he can still love Ponyo, even though she is a fish. Sosuke assures her that he loves Ponyo, no matter what her form is, and Ponyo's mother allows her to remain with Sosuke, which Fujimoto also grudgingly accepts.