Kurenai no buta (Porco Rosso)

 Porco Rosso, known in Japan as Crimson Pig) is the sixth  anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, basedon the manga “Hikoteijidai”  and will be screening at Cinematheque on January 22,2012, Cinema 1.  

Master animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this tale about a former World War I flying ace who is also a pig. Slouching toward middle age, Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his bright red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dogfights, this porcine pilot lives on a deserted island retreat. Porco Rosso was once a strapping young man, but after his entire squadron was wiped out, he was mysteriously transformed into a pig. Rosso is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who has been hired by the dastardly bandits. With his plane damaged, he finds a repair hangar near Milan run by an aging mechanic named Piccolo, and his spunky granddaughter Fio. Initially skeptical of her mechanical prowess, Rosso is amazed when she and a legion of local women fixed his plane. Soon, Porco Rosso is ready to battle his rival.

  

This is a fiction and fantasy movie and is rated PG. For more update, visit Brisbane Update.