Trivia for
Kurenai no buta (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Was originally planned as a 30-45 minute in-flight movies for Japan Airlines. Director Miyazaki eventually expanded it into a feature-length production.
  
  
• The name of the production studio (Ghibli) is embossed on the engine Piccolo installs in Porco's new plane.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Hayao Miyazaki] [pigs] The lead character has the face of a pig.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Hayao Miyazaki] [flying] Much of the movie's action involves planes and flying.
  
  
• The song that Marco (Porco) is listening to on the radio in the beginning is "Sakuranbo no Minoru Koro", which is the song Gina will sing in a later scene.
  
  
• Marco Paggot (Porco Rosso's real name) is named after an Italian animator who had worked with Hayao Miyazaki earlier in his career.
  
  
• Porco Rosso is based on manga Hikoutei Jidai (The Age of the Flying Boat) by Hayao Miyazaki, part of Zassou Note series.
  
  
• Miyazaki mentioned in a chat room that the ghost plane scene was inspired from a passage in a Roald Dahl story.
  
  
• Hayao Miyazaki has stated that he prefers the French language cast (in particular Jean Reno as Porco Rosso) over the Japanese cast.
  
  
• In the pirates joint attack sequence you can read on the front part of one of the pirate planes: "Morte ai porcelli!!" ("Death to the pigs!!") (Even though the first R is spelled like a N, but it may just be the handwriting...)
  
  
• In the scene at Gina's Island the bar holds many later characters. For example, seen at the table with the American pilot is Kamajii - later to be the boiler man in Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001), and Marco's sidekick (the girl) is the exact likeness of Nausicaa from Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984).
  
  

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