Porco Rosso, known in Japan as Crimson Pig (紅の豚, Kurenai no Buta?) is the sixth anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992. The story is about an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed and transformed into a pig. Once called Marco Pagot, he is now known to the world as "Porco Rosso", Italian for "Red Pig".
The film is loosely based on Miyazaki's manga Hikōtei Jidai. Miyazaki apparently based the scenery on the Rijeka, former Fiume, island coastline in Croatia.
During the 1920s, Porco Rosso is a former WW1 Italian flying ace who works as a freelance pirate hunter. Formerly known as Captain Marco Paggot (Marco Rosselini, in Walt Disney English version), he deserted Italian Air Force. He frequents the Hotel Adriano, where he spends time with Gina, the owner of the hotel and one of his closest friends.
An American pilot in contract with pirates, named Curtis, attacks Porco in the air. Porco's engine breaks down, making him an easy target for Curtis, and he crashes. Curtis claims to have killed Porco.
Rosso is the major city of south-western Mauritania and capital of Trarza region. It is situated on the Senegal River at the head of year-round navigation. The town is 204 km south of the capital Nouakchott. The Arabic name is Al-Quwarib.
Rosso was once the capital of the Emirate of Trarza, a Precolonial Sahrawi dominated state.
Under French colonial rule Senegal and Mauritania were administered as a single entity. When independence came, the new frontier was drawn along the Senegal River, thus splitting the small town of Rosso in two. This article refers to Mauritanian Rosso, on the northern bank of the river.
Originally a staging-post for the gum arabic trade, Rosso has grown rapidly since independence. From a population of a mere 2 300 in 1960 it has now overtaken Kaédi to become the 3rd largest city in the country with 48 922 inhabitants (2000 census).
South-western Mauritania is predominantly a Wolof -speaking area but many members of Mauritania's other ethnic groups have moved to the town to escape the severe problems of desertification further north.
Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru?), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō?, born December 6, 1950), is a composer and director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.
While possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, European classical, and Japanese classical. Lesser known are the other musical roles he plays; he is also a typesetter, author, arranger, and head of an orchestra.
He is best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, having composed scores for many of his films including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008). He is also recognized for the soundtracks he has provided for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Dolls (2002), Kikujiro (1999), Hana-bi (1997), Kids Return (1996), and Sonatine (1993).
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao?, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis; he has also been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine.
Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation. From there, Miyazaki worked as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was released in 1979. After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.
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Plot
In Early 1930's era Italy air pirates, bounty hunters and high fliers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. A former Ace, he now makes a living flying contract jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, adriatic-sea, air-pirate, airplane, american, anime, aviation, aviation-engineer, barnstorming
Porco Rosso: A pig that doesn't fly is just a pig.
Porco Rosso: I'd rather be a pig than a fascist.
Arms Dealer: If you make money from war, you're scum. If you can't make money from bounty hunting, you're an idiot!
Curtis: [taunting Porco] If you run away, I'll tell everyone you're chicken!::Porco Rosso: Chicken, pig, what's the difference?
Ferrarin: There are warrants out on you for treason, illegal entry, decadence, pornography... and for being a lazy pig.
Pirate: So we're taking all 15 of them?::Head Pirate: Well it wouldn't be nice to seperate them from their friends.
Porco Rosso: [Curtis and Porco have run out of ammo when Curtis attempts to shoot Porco with a revolver] Hahaha... This isn't a Western, you can't hit me from here.
Porco Rosso: A pig's gotta fly.
[Ferrarin has signaled to Porco]::Fio: What did he say?::Porco Rosso: He said "Cute kid. When did you start babysitting?"
Porco Rosso: I'm a pig. I don't fight for honor. I fight for a paycheck.
When the Porkman takes a hold, you ll be scared your blood run cold
Then you ll feel his putrid breath, closing in to bore your flesh
Down, down, he s gonna take you down.
When the Porkman s in the street, he s quite well mannered when he speaks
But if the Porkman challenges, his grunting snout ravages
When he s in the ring he ll do most anything
He ll throw you all around, he s gonna take you down!
He learnt his trade in Mexico, from the ancient champ El Santo!
Lord almighty,
I feel my temperature rising
Higher higher
Its burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl
You gonna set me on fire
My brain is flaming
I dont know which way to go
Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
I feel my temperature rising
Help me, Im flaming
I must be a hundred and nine
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
But I feel fine
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like a sweet song of a choir
And you light my morning sky
With burning love
Its coming closer
The flames are reaching my body
Please wont you help me
I feel like Im slipping away
Its hard to breath
And my chest is a-heaving
Lord almighty,
Im burning a hole where I lay
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
With burning love
Ah, ah, burning love
Im just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
You ll find no slogans, no sponsorships on me my shirt is clean,
Practise makes perfect and it s worth it from the fairway to the green
So step aside and let me play on through to the nineteenth,
I m not content to be number one, but the best there s ever been!
And now it s time for me to come up with the goods,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods,
I don t know if I can or if I could,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods.
No caddyshacker, weekend hacker beats me to the green,
No handicapper, Sunday tapper watching over me,
My player profile, stats are worthwhile in every magazine,
I m not content to be number one, but the best there s ever been!
And now it s time for me to come up with the goods,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods,
I don t know if I can or if I could,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods
Red hot rookie, clever cookie! That s what all the papers say.
Flash in the pan, a one night Stan! But every dog will have his day,
I ll apply myself, advance my wealth, and keep my image squeaky clean,
I m not content to be number one, but the best there s you ve ever seen!
And now it s time for me to come up with the goods,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods,
I don t know if I can or if I could,
So I m swinging like Tiger Woods
I m swinging, I m swinging
I m swinging, I m swinging, I m swinging like tiger woods
Perfect teeth, behind those perfect lips, to match those perfect eyes
I'm hypnotised, her sudden grace, my pieces fell to place
To watch her style, and her smile, I'm mesmerised.
Every time she's around me someone slaps me on my back
And says "hey guy take note of that, don't let this one just walk away"
She's got everything I've needed, portable, compact, completed
My common sense has been deleted, can't let her pass by me this time.
With those perfect teeth, behind those perfect lips, to match those perfect eyes
I'm hypnotised, her sudden grace, my pieces fell to place
To watch her style, and her smile, I'm mesmerised
Thank you doctor for your maintenance and care
For your years and years of service on my girl's hardware
She's got 32 in sequence of perfect pearly whites
And my what was it you did for her appetite?
Every time she's round me music whispers down my ears
Says " Sonny Jim get the message clear, don't let this one just walk away"
And all my friends they say they see the chain reaction easily
Of all the things she does to me forever she would make my day
With those perfect teeth, behind those perfect lips, to match those perfect eyes
I'm hypnotised, her sudden grace, my pieces fell right into place
To watch her style, and her smile, I'm mesmerised
Perfect teeth, perfect lips, perfect eyes I'm hypnotised
Perfect teeth, perfect lips, perfect eyes I'm mesmerised
Hypnotised, mesmerised
Party starter, party bender, every weekend long weekender,
parties hard, no stop and thinker, he's the designated drinker!
Stop that man from driving take his keys,
swap them for a beer from him with ease,
centre of attention, plan of his intention,
Stop that man!
Party starter, party bender, every weekend long weekender,
parties hard, no stop and thinker, he's the designated drinker!
Who's that man he's got all the moves,
air guitar and his dancin' shoes,
he's the voice of our generation,
soaked his lips with lubrication,
Who's that man!
Party starter, party bender, every weekend long weekender,
parties hard, no stop and thinker, he's the designated drinker!
Just before you have that drink,
take a moment to stop and think,
check the time, and check your bearings,
check out all those people staring,
different party, same routine,
same old tricks that we've all seen,
party clown there's no respect,
but what the hell did you expect?
See that man on the park bench,
for him the party never ends,
sleeps amongst the garbage bags,
he lost the wife and kids he had
See that man he is just the...
(Party starter, party bender, every weekend long weekender,
Hello suburbia I'm really gettin' use to ya
It's Sunday and i gotta mow my big backyard
Work through the weekday, Sunday at home I'll stay
Climbin' up the ladder cause I'm workin hard
I got my pool and my patio, my boat and my stereo,
Polish up I gotta go and fix my fence
Then clean the window gotta grease that elbow
Keepin' up with the Jones' leaves me feelin tense
My families proud I've worked real hard
Quarter acre block and a big backyard.
I've got a dog called Bluey the neighbours say he's screwy
But I know he loves me so I love him,
He eats bugs and snails, chases his own tail
When friends come around he wont let them in.
You must try my homebrew, don't you know its good for you,
Down in the shed that's where I brew mine,
It's filled with power tools a couple of old stools
Come on in the beer is fine!
We drink those beers in my backyard, even then I'm workin' hard
Flame up the barbie gotta be just right
My friends and my in-laws sometimes they can be a bore
Two days of the week I don't drink lite
My wife and my family all they do is yell at me
'All you do is work and you work too hard!'
This has got to be the only way I'm sure I heard the TV say
When I met this girl, I thought she was perfect
We were having fun like back in the old days
But something was wrong, something was missing
The simplest thing she started flipping!
What's the problem? I can't tell
One moment she is happy, then she starts to yell
Whatever I do for her, it just ain't right
She leaves me in the darkness, I can't see the light
She's got a Chemical Imbalance
She don't drop no trips, don't light no chalice
She don't do coke, and she don't do speed
She's just trippin' out naturally. Chemical Imbalance
Every day it's just the same
She says she loves me but don't know my name
And if I ever leave her, she don't know what she'll do
Says she'll cut her wrists if I tell her we're through
Do anything at any given time
A live wire, you need niggas like that around
I'm back on my nick cage
And leaving lies fagots ways
And 5th the irish whiskey hokal
With the heart of gold and a bag of haze
Fuck swag, slainy got her swagging on the agavate
Atitude when executing, if I don't leave this fagots
Ate apparently
I prove too much of force to be held
Wonder war but unfortunately cost me as well
If I'm buying them I'm buying don't force me to sell
I maim in the name of heaven, till I'm scorching in hell
My life is lived amongst the chosen, my gifts are possesed
But I'm ...obsessed, stuck with all the sick shit, I guess
Years ago I had a death wish with a pistol, depressed
And I ain't had nothing but trust me, I done risked it for less
Now my story is told, is urban legend of those
Who live in the cold, cocaine drips in they nose
And I spose I have rose, above most of my foes
Look me in the eyes, it's like beeing close to the a cause
I keep shake gutter, I don't be doing them dances
My flow similar to front doors, put you in trances
Raised on 90's rap, so whenever I perform
You hear hip hop in its pure forst
23 defense, I am in the zone
Even when I am one deep, I am not alone
What that there means? I'm riding with the chrome
My dogs co signed, like I'm apllying for a loan
Still mad cats from the same hood I represent me
You think they would represent me
But I took a pound, couple rounds lay them suckers down
Never stuck my dick in the circle, nah, I don't fuck around
Lift skirts like a female thief
On these internet gangsters who email beef
You dying to get some of these figures
Too much bread, you never calculate to sum up these figures
Time is up, my time is now
Seen the, wanna be thugs, the all day dreamers
Niggas get beat up, in 192 when we meet up
Hostage the leader, while we roll the weed up
Niggas never earn stripes like adidas
I rep my block, give a fuck who don't need us
12 cribs holding heaters
Millimiters will put your feet up
Like passing through with the vacuum cleaner
I'ma brew street warrior, that's my damn team
Professional shooters with good aim no beam
Always on the scene, spittin more than 16
While niggas at home tryina keep they sneaks clean
Niggas act tough but they scared inside
Ship one off, you be the first to testify
Supposed to be real, the fuck happened to your pride?
Claiming that you ride, money scared nigga, petrified
Ain't no struggle with that progress
God bless these bars I orchestrate
While y'all rest, uses terminology to leave em slain honest
Money wasn't easy, my family nicky from breast
Pest control slept with rats and roach, home infested
Got with a slick click quick with chose to throw a message
Poems, epics, to know to show the homies exits
It's ain't just trap or die, rappers my magnify, ing glass
At last, I see it's bigger than my add, deeper than death
From out the speaker let, my voice, live wire
Electrify the set, good choice of the pourist populated
If I in the ...players press play and zoom
Let the rhythm consume and take ya
Where outta space is loom haters no room I gave ya
I write these bars like I'm still in the bottom rotting
Niggas relate, a alikes, can't be forgotten
A true live wire, inspired by my society
Driving through the city, police checks sobriety
My ebt call my former id
Cook like george forman, perform like r lee
Live, wire to the wire tap, marijuana medicine
Fire order...yeah I made this beat
But you won't see a dime of that
I'm stacking up my cream and I ain't even tryina rap
I'm tryina act, make beats, direct videos
Run a rap label and stay hood political
Live like the third rail kimo l
Kill em all, cause dead man sing no tales
If you got a big gun but you ain't down to shoot it
Just find you a live wire, the block's always recruiting
I'm stupid with getting loose, shooters stay in my crew
I'm stepping out of bounds about you
It's long overdue
I'm cutting you loose
Moving over movies untrue
You'll move again soon
It's a choice if you choose
And I've counted forwards and backwards from ten
I've had heavy nights with the best of friends
And I'd sleep on the floor, right next to your door
And I think it's alright
I know I can drive tonight
I'm jumping over mountains for you
With no good excuse
Makes it tough to get through to you
Stepping out of bounds about me
Courageous and free
It's what's best for the family
And there you are
You're everywhere I go tonight...
And I've counted forwards and backwards from ten
I've had heavy nights with the best of friends
And I'd sleep on the floor, right next to your door
And I'll think I'm alright
The second star to the right
Shines in the night for you
To tell you that the dreams you plan
Really can come true
The second star to the right
Shines with a light that's rare
And if it's Never Land you need
It's light will lead you there
Twinkle, twinkle little star
So I'll know where you are
Gleaming in the skies above
Lead me to the one who loves me
And when you bring him my way
Each time we say goodnight
We'll thank the little star that shines