Porco Rosso

  • © 1992 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NN

  • © 1992 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NN

  • © 1992 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NN

  • © 1992 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NN

  • Saturday, Jul 6, 2024

    5:00 PM (93 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Porco Rosso

(Kurenai no buta)

Hayao Miyazaki
Japan, 1992

Original Japanese version

featuring

Shuichiro Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akio Otsuka, Akemi Okamura,

Based on a short watercolor manga the director created for a model-building magazine, Porco Rosso was originally planned as an in-flight film for Japan Airlines. The tale of a (literally) pig-headed seaplane pilot who hunts air pirates over the late 1920s Adriatic Sea grew into a feature-length adventure, in which the titular World War I veteran teams up with a plucky teen engineer to take on a hotdogging American aviator against a backdrop of simmering fascism. It is a celebration of mechanics and the fruits of dedicated labor, which Hayao Miyazaki and his artisan animators exemplify as planes swim, sputter, and soar from sea to sky and back again.

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Hayao Miyazaki

Based On

  • Miyazaki's manga The Age of the Flying Boat

Language

  • Japanese
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 93 mins

Source

  • GKIDS

Event Accessibility

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