Fio makes a deal with him declaring that if Porco wins, Curtis must pay off his debts owed the Piccolo's company, and if Curtis wins, he may marry her. Fio successfully talks them out of it, but Curtis appears and challenges Porco to a final duel. Upon returning home, Porco and Fio are ambushed by the pirates, who threaten to kill Porco and destroy his plane.
Stopping off to refuel on the way, Porco discovers that the new Fascist government is beginning to hire seaplane pirates for their own use, thus putting him out of business.īack at the Hotel Adriano, Curtis proposes to Gina but she turns him down, saying that she is waiting for Porco Rosso to realize that she loves him and approach her. When Porco's plane is finished, he is unexpectedly joined by Fio on his flight home, with the justification that if the secret police arrest the team, they can say that Porco forced them to help and took Fio as a hostage. With no males to assist in the works, Piccolo calls up an all-female team of all ages to repair the plane.
Porco is initially skeptical of Fio's abilities as a mechanic, but after seeing her dedication in the repair project he accepts her as a competent engineer. He learns that Piccolo's sons have emigrated to find work elsewhere due to the great depression, and much of the engineering will have to be carried on by his young granddaughter Fio. Porco arrives discreetly in Milan to meet Piccolo, his mechanic. Porco continues the trip by train with the remains of the plane, much to the irritation of Gina, already worried about his shooting down and who reminds him that there is a warrant for his arrest in Italy. Porco actually survives, all but the airframe of his plane has been destroyed and the fuselage is heavily damaged. After successfully executing a pirating mission, Curtis tracks down Porco, who is flying to Milan to have his plane serviced, and shoots him down as he experiences an engine outage, claiming to have killed him. Curtis falls in love on the spot with Gina, but is frustrated to see his declarations rebuffed and her affection for Porco. Having successfully defeated the airborne pirates, Porco treats himself to a good dinner at the Hotel Adriano, which is run by his long-time friend Gina.Īt the restaurant of the hotel the heads of the pirate gangs are contracting Curtis, an arrogant and ambitious American ace, to assist them in their next attacks. Porco Rosso, a veteran World War I fighter ace and freelance bounty hunter, responds to an alert over an attack on a ferry liner by airborne pirates. He was voiced by Shuichiro Moriyama in the Japanese, and by Michael Keaton in the English. He was once human until he was transforned inti a pig. Porco Rosso is the titular character in the 1992 animated Studio Ghibli film of the same name.
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