Porco Rosso (1992)
(Kurenai no buta)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A former WWI air ace turned bounty hunter and porcine anthropomorph roams the Adriatic in his flying boat, while doing his best to dodge the fascist Italian authorities and attempting to forget his love for a hotelière and guilt over the death of her husband, his friend.
Review:
Utterly unique adventure film that recalls the drawings of Hergé's Tintin and the villains of Popeye. It's knockabout heroics with a strong melancholy undertow, though it is the director's evident love of aviation that comes through loud and clear. A sense of period is beautifully caught, and not just through the aeroplanes, and there is the customary Japanese love of the grotesque, right down to the pulverized physiognomies of the hero and villain after the climactic duel.
(Kurenai no buta)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A former WWI air ace turned bounty hunter and porcine anthropomorph roams the Adriatic in his flying boat, while doing his best to dodge the fascist Italian authorities and attempting to forget his love for a hotelière and guilt over the death of her husband, his friend.
Review:
Utterly unique adventure film that recalls the drawings of Hergé's Tintin and the villains of Popeye. It's knockabout heroics with a strong melancholy undertow, though it is the director's evident love of aviation that comes through loud and clear. A sense of period is beautifully caught, and not just through the aeroplanes, and there is the customary Japanese love of the grotesque, right down to the pulverized physiognomies of the hero and villain after the climactic duel.
(Kurenai no buta)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 94m
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: animation
Synopsis:
A former WWI air ace turned bounty hunter and porcine anthropomorph roams the Adriatic in his flying boat, while doing his best to dodge the fascist Italian authorities and attempting to forget his love for a hotelière and guilt over the death of her husband, his friend.
Review:
Utterly unique adventure film that recalls the drawings of Hergé's Tintin and the villains of Popeye. It's knockabout heroics with a strong melancholy undertow, though it is the director's evident love of aviation that comes through loud and clear. A sense of period is beautifully caught, and not just through the aeroplanes, and there is the customary Japanese love of the grotesque, right down to the pulverized physiognomies of the hero and villain after the climactic duel.