Porco Rosso
A pig's got to fly.
Country
Production
Budget
$9 200 000
Box office
$1 138 855
Director
Actors
Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Bunshi Katsura Vi, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Akemi Okamura, Akio Otsuka, Hiroko Seki, Reizō Nomoto, Osamu Saka, Yu Shimaka
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu, Yoshio Sasaki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Yoshio Sasaki, Sokai Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Katsu Hisamura
Audition
Editing
Short description
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
What's left behind the scenes
- Much of the events in "Porco Rosso" are based on real events and real people. The exception, of course, is the "pigheadedness" of Marco Pagot.
- The pirate gang "Mamma Aiuto" translates from Italian as "Mommy, help!".
- At the beginning of the film, titles are shown in the following languages: Japanese, Italian, Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, French, and German.
- Marco Pagott is a real person, an Italian animator and a good friend of Miyazaki. Marco’s main rival, Donald Curtis, is named after Glenn Curtiss, one of the pioneers of American and world aviation.
- Initially, the film was to be set in one of the most beautiful cities on the Adriatic coast – Dubrovnik, Croatia, founded by the Romans. However, the Croatian and Yugoslav Wars began in 1991, and Serbian artillery practically wiped Dubrovnik off the face of the earth. Therefore, the film's action was moved to an unnamed island in the Adriatic. Specifically, the destruction of Dubrovnik prompted Miyazaki to make the film more serious.
- Tokiko Kato, who voiced Gina, Porco's former lover, in the film, is a famous Japanese singer.
- The film was based on Miyazaki's manga 'Hikoutei Jidai' (The Age of Hydroplanes) [1990]. However, the manga contained almost no mention of fascists or the love story between Porco and Gina.
- ‘Porco Rosso’ was originally planned as a 30-45 minute film for screening on board aircraft of ‘Japan Airlines’.
- In the film, Marco Pagot travels to Milan to assemble an airplane and discovers that only women are working at the factory. When he asks why, he is told that all the men have gone to work due to the ‘Great Depression’. In reality, preparations for military and colonial expansion allowed Italy to exit the ‘Great Depression’ of the 1930s with minimal losses.
- The Japanese title of the film translates as ‘Crimson Pig’. However, Miyazaki recommended that foreign translators use the Italian version of the title. Crimson is the color of Porco’s seaplane.
- Porco transforms into a pig specifically because Miyazaki himself adores pigs. He likes to depict himself as a pig and believes that “every man, upon reaching middle age, turns into a pig.”
- The seaplanes featured in the film actually existed, although Miyazaki slightly modified the design of most of them. Schneider Trophy seaplane races also existed. What didn’t exist was an “industry” of air piracy (although individual instances of such things are known in the history of aeronautics).
- In the French dub of the film, the role of Porco was voiced by the French actor Jean Reno. In the film that made him famous, “Léon” (1994), Reno’s character says, “Pigs are better than people.”
- The scene with the deceased pilots is borrowed from Roald Dahl’s story “They Never Grow Old.”
- The original mentions an engine from a “Folgore,” but at the time of the film’s events, neither that aircraft nor the engine could have existed.
- The film is based on Miyazaki's manga "The Age of Flying Machines" [Hikoutei Jidai] (1990). However, the manga contained almost no mentions of fascists and lacked the romantic plotline between Porco and Gina.
- The pirate gang's name, "Mamma Aiuto," translates from Italian as "Mama, help!"
- The Japanese title of the film translates as "Crimson Pig." However, Miyazaki recommended that foreign translators use the Italian version of the title. Crimson is the color of Porco's seaplane.
- Porco turns specifically into a pig because Miyazaki himself adores pigs. He likes to depict himself as a pig and believes that "every man, upon reaching middle age, turns into a pig."
- Marco Pagot is a real person, an Italian animator and a good friend of Miyazaki. Marco's main rival, Donald Curtis, is named after Glenn Curtiss, one of the pioneers of American and global aviation.
- Tokiko Kato, who voiced Gina, Porco's former lover in the film, is a well-known Japanese singer.
- In the French dub of the film, the role of Porco was voiced by French actor Jean Reno. In the film that made him famous, 'Léon' (1994), Reno's character says the phrase, 'Pigs are better than people.'
- The scene with the fallen pilots is borrowed from Roald Dahl's story 'They Will Never Grow Old.'
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