Porco Rosso

Porco Rosso - (紅の豚 Kurenai no buta), is a 1992 anime film about an Italian World War I fighter ace now living as a freelance bounty hunter against "Air Pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed, and has the head of a pig.

This was originally planned as an in-flight movie for JAL based on Miyazakis Manga The Age of the flying Boat[?], but production was overshadowed by the civil war in Yugoslavia which prompted a more serious tone of the movie.

Credits Direction, Original Story & Screenplay: Miyazaki Hayao
Music: Joe Hisaishi[?] Production: Studio Ghibli

External Links

• Porco Rosso page at Nausicaa.net (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/)
• About Miyazakis Manga The Age of the flying Boat (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/hikoutei)