He returns to the Adriatic with Piccolo’s granddaughter Fio (Akemi Okamura/Kimberly Williams-Paisley) in tow after she proves her engineering chops by completely redesigning and vastly improving his aircraft. When Porco heads for fascist-controlled Turin (Milan in the English language version) to have his aircraft serviced by aircraft mechanic Piccolo (Sanshi Katsura/David Ogden Stiers), he survives an attempt on his life by Curtis. The Mamma Aiuto pirate gang hires the American adventurer and film star Curtis (Akio Otsuka/Carey Elwes) to help them deal with Porco but complications arise when he falls for Gina (Tokiko Kato/Susan Egan), owner of the Hotel Adriano who is secretly in love with Porco. He now finds work as a bounty hunter, patrolling the Adriatic in search of sky pirates aboard his bright red seaplane. ![]() Porco Rosso (Shuichiro Moriyama in the Japanese version, Michael Keaton in the later Disney dub), a humanoid pig who, as the human Marco, served as a fighter pilot in the Italian air force in World War I. ![]() Hayao Miyazaki’s love of aviation found its most obvious outlet in Porco Rosso, an otherwise atypical film from the director in that it features virtually no fantasy elements at all – apart from the not inconsiderable fact that the eponymous character is a flying pig… Indeed the events of the film would have played out exactly the same if Porco had been his human former self, Marco, all along.
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