PRODUCER: You make that adventure movie about seaplane pirates?
HAYAO MIYAZAKI: Sure did boss, real fucking suffused with the melancholy, cynical guilt of having survived the Great War and watching the world slide into fascism, just like you asked.
PRODUCER: what
Porco Rosso is a wonderful movie, but also a very strange one. It’s a comical, pulpy adventure story about a heroic Pig who fights seaplane pirates over the Adriatic Sea. But it’s also …
