Porco Rosso

紅の豚 (1992)

Timing: 1:33 (93 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1992-07-18

Country

Japan

Production

TOHO, Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Nibariki, Tokuma Shoten, Mitsubishi, Buena Vista International, Japan Airlines Co Ltd

Genre

Family, Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Budget

$9 200 000

Revenue

$44 600 000

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Director

Hayao Miyazaki

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)

Scenario

Producer

Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu, Yoshio Sasaki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Yoshio Sasaki, Sokai Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu

Operator

Atsushi Okui

Composer

Joe Hisaishi

Artist

Audition

Editing

Takeshi Seyama
All team (65)

• The film is based on Miyazaki's manga "The Age of the Flying Boat" [Hikoutei Jidai] (1990). However, the manga contained practically no mention of fascists or the love story between Porco and Gina.
• "Porco Rosso" was originally planned as a 30-45 minute film for showing on board aircraft of "Japan Airlines".
• 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.
• In the film, Marco Pagott went to Milan to collect an airplane and discovered that only women were working at the factory. When he asked why, he was told that all the men had gone to work abroad due to the ‘Great Depression’. In reality, preparations for military and colonial conquests allowed Italy to emerge from 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 turns into a pig specifically because Miyazaki himself loves pigs. He likes to depict himself as a pig and believes that ‘every man, upon reaching middle age, turns into a pig’.
• 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.
• The seaplanes featured in the film actually existed, although Miyazaki slightly modified the design of most of them. Schneider Trophy seaplane races also existed. The only thing that didn't exist was an 'industry' of air piracy (although individual cases are known in the history of aeronautics).
• Tokiko Kato, who voiced Gina, Porco's former lover, in the film, is a famous 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, 'Pigs are better than people.'
• The scene with the deceased pilots was taken from Roald Dahl’s story 'They Never Grow Old'.
• The original mentions an engine from "Folgore", but at the time of the film's events, neither the aircraft nor the engine could have existed.
• 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.