The local sea pirates can’t stand his heroic exploits and hire Donald Curtiss ( Cary Elwes), an American pilot with dreams of Hollywood stardom, to take Porco down. Set above the Mediterranean Seas post-World War One, Porco Rosso follows the exploits of the eponymous pork-headed hero himself (voiced by Michael Keaton in the English dub!), an ex-army pilot now positioned as the most ruthless bounty hunter in the land. It’s allegedly one of Miyazaki’s most personal films, the rare movie in his oeuvre that was made for adults first but made accessible to children. Some might see this as a vast departure from the usually mythical and dense fantasy elements of his other films, but to his credit, this provides Miyazaki the opportunity to find the magical in the otherwise mundane, and to highlight wonder in our own reality, treacherous and devious as it may be.
Aside from the literal pig-headedness of the titular character, there are little-to-no elements of magic to be found in Hayao Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso.
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