--- product_id: 48424648 title: "Porco Rosso [DVD]" price: "620 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/48424648-porco-rosso-dvd store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Porco Rosso [DVD] **Price:** 620 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Porco Rosso [DVD] - **How much does it cost?** 620 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/48424648-porco-rosso-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Porco Rosso ( The Crimson Pig , 1992) ranks as Hayao Miyazaki's oddest film: a bittersweet period adventure about a dashing pilot who has somehow been turned into a pig. Miyazaki once said, "Initially, it was supposed to be a 45-minute film for tired businessmen to watch on long airplane flights... Why kids love it is a mystery to me." The early 1930s setting enabled Miyazaki to focus on the old airplanes he loves, and the film boasts complex and extremely effective aerial stunts and dogfights. In the new English dub from Disney, Michael Keaton as Porco delivers lines like "All middle-aged men are pigs" with appropriate cynicism, but his voice may be too familiar for some Miyazaki fans. Susan Egan makes a curiously distant Gina, the thrice-widowed hotel owner bound to Porco by years of friendship; Kimberly Williams is more effective as the irrepressible young engineer Fio. Porco Rosso may be an odd film, but Miyazaki's directorial imagination never flags.-- Charles Solomon Acclaimed Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli. Set in the 1930s, the film follows Porco Rosso (Shûichirô Moriyama), a talented fighter pilot who is turned into a pig by a magic spell. Adapting well to his porcine transformation, Porco sells himself out as a pilot for hire, until a big shot American flyer arrives, looking to make a name for himself by shooting down the Crimson Pig. With his feisty sidekick Fio (Akemi Okamura), Porco gets his battered plane back into shape for the big showdown. Review: A rare delight - Yet more proof from a master storyteller that anime is as high a form of art as any. This fabulously poignant and funny story contains many of Hayao Miyazaki's marks of quirky genius. It's about the life and loves of a seaplane pilot who has been turned into a pig and makes his living in the Adriatic as a bounty hunter, during the rise of Fascism in Italy. So what's so strange about that? After all, as he says, while he is calmly sorting through his sub-standard ammunition on the night before a Duel to the Death with his satisfyingly villanous arch-rival, "All middle-aged men are pigs." Unlike any other film in the world, and unlike the other Studio Ghibli films. An act of gratuitous creativity. Visually ravishing, but to anyone interested in animation and storytelling, this is a bottomless goldmine of expertise in every aspect of the art; timing, framing, characterisation, colour, background detail, you name it. Both Japanese and American voicework are flawless, though the Japanese version has some moments of true poignancy that were missed in the US version, which is slightly more facile in a couple of places. Every single character in the film is faultlessly animated, penetratingly observed, and funny. Every scene is worth seeing a hundred times. But the story itself, my dears, is just so plain inspired, teetering as it does along the brink of some fairly punchy taboo areas, but always with a delightfully clear and high and affectionate moral purpose. And even the credits at the end, which combine a hauntingly beautiful song by the wonderful Tokiko Kato with Hayao Miyazaki's hilarious sketches of tween-wars pilots and their planes, hold the viewer between tears and laughter. Miyazaki-san, thank you! Buy several copies and give all but one to your best friends. Review: FANTASTIC - MAGIC ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Hayao Miyazaki, Rick Dempsey, Toshio Suzuki | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,087 Reviews | | Format | PAL | | Genre | Anime | | Global Trade Identification Number | 05060034573586 | | Language | Japanese | | Manufacturer | Studiocanal | | Number of discs | 1 | | Runtime | 1 hour and 34 minutes | ## Product Details - **Genre:** Anime - **Format:** PAL - **Contributor:** Rick Dempsey, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki - **Language:** Japanese - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 34 minutes ## Images ![Porco Rosso [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/918EGuv4ySL.jpg) ![Porco Rosso [DVD] - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Z9IDBNKIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A rare delight *by S***E on 27 September 2010* Yet more proof from a master storyteller that anime is as high a form of art as any. This fabulously poignant and funny story contains many of Hayao Miyazaki's marks of quirky genius. It's about the life and loves of a seaplane pilot who has been turned into a pig and makes his living in the Adriatic as a bounty hunter, during the rise of Fascism in Italy. So what's so strange about that? After all, as he says, while he is calmly sorting through his sub-standard ammunition on the night before a Duel to the Death with his satisfyingly villanous arch-rival, "All middle-aged men are pigs." Unlike any other film in the world, and unlike the other Studio Ghibli films. An act of gratuitous creativity. Visually ravishing, but to anyone interested in animation and storytelling, this is a bottomless goldmine of expertise in every aspect of the art; timing, framing, characterisation, colour, background detail, you name it. Both Japanese and American voicework are flawless, though the Japanese version has some moments of true poignancy that were missed in the US version, which is slightly more facile in a couple of places. Every single character in the film is faultlessly animated, penetratingly observed, and funny. Every scene is worth seeing a hundred times. But the story itself, my dears, is just so plain inspired, teetering as it does along the brink of some fairly punchy taboo areas, but always with a delightfully clear and high and affectionate moral purpose. And even the credits at the end, which combine a hauntingly beautiful song by the wonderful Tokiko Kato with Hayao Miyazaki's hilarious sketches of tween-wars pilots and their planes, hold the viewer between tears and laughter. Miyazaki-san, thank you! Buy several copies and give all but one to your best friends. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ FANTASTIC *by K***L on 13 September 2026* MAGIC ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best of Miyazaki? *by C***L on 18 January 2009* Utterly gorgeous to look at, with at least two of the most beautiful sequences of animation ever filmed. But also very funny, engaging, and thoughtful by turns. Plenty here for film fans of any age and persuasion, plotlines ranging from old-fashioned unrequited love (Gina and Marco) to adventure (Porco v. just about everybody else in the air), to political intrigue (secret police etc), but the main focus is less the story than the sheer romance of flying and rescuing fantastic machines amid wonderful scenery. When Porco tells Fio the story of how he came to be cursed - which is all a bit existential, not that that matters at all - it's perhaps the most poignant scene of any animated film: gently enigmatic, glorious to see, and just plain heartbreaking, all at once. I first saw the film just over 10 years ago, slightly intrigued by what all the fuss was about, and loved it straightaway. Since then I've watched it probably every other year. More surprisingly, despite plenty of competition from fine newer releases by Miyazaki, Pixar et al., my children adore this film it as much as ever (they were 5-ish on first seeing it, so 15-ish now and still wanting to see it) - that's quite a test of the Crimson Pig's durability. Miyazaki, on form, is arguably the best hand-drawn animator alive. Porco Rosso is among his very finest work. ## Frequently Bought Together - Porco Rosso [DVD] - Laputa: Castle In The Sky [DVD] - Pom Poko [DVD] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.no/products/48424648-porco-rosso-dvd](https://www.desertcart.no/products/48424648-porco-rosso-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Norway* *Store origin: NO* *Last updated: 2026-10-13*