Porco Rosso

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Foreign Title: Kurenai no buta
Date: January 01, 1992 to December 31, 1992
Dates Note: 1992
Country of Origin: Japan
Place of Origin: Japan
Languages: Japanese
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: Miyazaki's manga The Age of the Flying Boat
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema
Description: 

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.

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