Doesn’t this sound like Miyazaki movie? “…the swelling waves take the form of dolphins, and when a Japanese coastal village gets submerged no one is killed or hurt – just amusingly displaced. The rising up of the marine world is not insurrection against humanity but gently cautionary instruction for it. Treat the oceans with respect, the movie says, and they will provide you with food and wonder.” This was quoted in the Time Magazine article on Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.

Ponyo is a story about a five year old boy who befriends a gold fish who wishes to become a human.  The filmmaker uses a watercolor based look with inspiration from time spent at a rental house by a sea cliff. 

Ponyo should be arriving in the states next year because Disney has agreed to distribute the film in English.