Porco Rosso - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Porco Rosso"
紅の豚 (1992)
Timing: 1:33 (93 min)
Porco Rosso - TMDB rating
7.795/10
3673
Porco Rosso - Kinopoisk rating
7.924/10
54742
Porco Rosso - IMDB rating
7.7/10
115000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Matsuo Toshimitsu
Producer
Yoshio Sasaki
Producer

Executive Producer

Yoshio Sasaki
Executive Producer
Sokai Tokuma
Executive Producer
Matsuo Toshimitsu
Executive Producer

Editor

Production Design

Katsu Hisamura
Production Design

Second Unit Director

Shinichi Matsumi
Second Unit Director
Hiroshi Kawanishi
Second Unit Director
Masahito Yamamoto
Second Unit Director

Original Music Composer

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Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

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Atsushi Okui

Atsushi Okui
Director of Photography

Sound Effects Editor

Kazutoshi Sato
Sound Effects Editor

Sound Mixer

Makoto Sumiya
Sound Mixer

Production Manager

Nozomu Takahashi
Production Manager

Screenplay

Assistant Editor

Hiroshi Adachi
Assistant Editor
Hiroshi Adachi
Assistant Editor

Special Effects

Kaoru Tanifuji
Special Effects
Setsuko Tamai
Special Effects
Tomoji Hashizume
Special Effects

Other

Tatsumi Yamashita
Other
Hideo Ogata
Other

Production Assistant

Hiroyuki Ito
Production Assistant

Animation Director

Megumi Kagawa
Animation Director
Toshio Kawaguchi
Animation Director

Color Designer

Original Story

Sound Mix Technician

Hajime Takagi
Sound Mix Technician

Background Designer

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Yoji Takeshige
Background Designer
Naoya Tanaka
Background Designer
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Kazuo Oga

Kazuo Oga
Background Designer
Satoshi Kuroda
Background Designer
Kyoko Naganawa
Background Designer
Kiyomi Oota
Background Designer
Akira Yamakawa
Background Designer
Naomi Sakimoto
Background Designer

Comic Book

Sound Effects

Hironori Ono
Sound Effects

Music Producer

Tomoko Okada
Music Producer
Yoshihiro Oikawa
Music Producer

Key Animation

Makiko Futaki
Key Animation
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Masashi Ando
Key Animation
Yuji Shigekuni
Key Animation

Mitsuo Iso

Mitsuo Iso
Key Animation
Hiroko Minowa
Key Animation
Shinji Otsuka
Key Animation
Sachiko Sugino
Key Animation
Noriko Moritomo
Key Animation
Hiroshi Shimizu
Key Animation
Masako Shinohara
Key Animation
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Kenichi Yoshida
Key Animation
Atsuko Otani
Key Animation
Shinji Morohashi
Key Animation
Akiko Hasegawa
Key Animation
Yuu Isomitsu
Key Animation
Atsuko Tanaka
Key Animation

Compositing Artist

Kumiko Taniguchi
Compositing Artist

Recording Supervision

Naoko Asari

Naoko Asari
Recording Supervision

What's left behind the scenes

  • 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.
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