Rating: PG
Genre:
Fantasy
Release Date: 02/22/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French/Japanese
Sound: DDS/THX
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Master animator
Hayao Miyazaki directs this tale about a former World War I flying ace who is also a pig. Slouching toward middle age,
Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his bright red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dogfights, this porcine pilot lives on a deserted island retreat.
Porco Rosso was once a strapping young man, but after his entire squadron was wiped out, he was mysteriously transformed into a pig.
Rosso is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who has been hired by the dastardly bandits. With his plane damaged, he finds a repair hangar near Milan run by an aging mechanic named
Piccolo, and his spunky granddaughter
Fio. Initially skeptical of her mechanical prowess,
Rosso is amazed when she and a legion of local women fix his plane. Soon,
Porco Rosso is ready to battle his rival.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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