I remember my former female classmate AM mentioning this movie to me one day years ago when we both worked at L Binding Service (LBS), and so I watched the movie and I liked it better than I had expected; and so I am glad that Wisecrack made a video about it.
Based on one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature of the same name, Stephen Chow’s ‘Journey To The West’ is a contemporary remake of the misadventures of a Buddhist monk as he makes a pilgrimage from China to India.
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 fix his plane. Soon, Porco Rosso is ready to battle his rival.