Porco Rosso - (紅の豚 Kurenai no buta), is a 1992 anime film about an Italian World War I fighter ace now living as a freelance bounty hunter against "Air Pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed, and has the head of a pig.
This was originally planned as an in-flight movie for JAL based on Miyazakis Manga The Age of the flying Boat[?], but production was overshadowed by the civil war in Yugoslavia which prompted a more serious tone of the movie.
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