Porco Rosso (LP, O.S.T., Studio Ghibli Records)

Porco Rosso is a 1992 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The plot follows an Italian WWI fighter pilot that currently works as a bounty hunter and his clashes with air pirates over the Adriatic Sea. However, a curse has turned him into an anthromorphic pig, earning him the nickname of Porco Rosso (Italian for Red Pig.) It features many homages to early aviation and is one of the few Ghibli films set in an identifiable real world place and point in history. The score was again composed by Joe Hisaishi and performed by a 70 piece orchestra, giving a quaint and quirky sonic backdrop for Miyazakis incredible hand-drawn animation. Track Listing: The Wind of Ages – When a Human Can Be a Human MAMMA AIUTO Addio! Bygone Days A Picture in Sepia Serbian March Flying Boatmen Doom – Trap of Clouds Porco E Bella Fio – Seventeen Women of Piccolo Friend Partnership To the Adriatic Sea In Search of the Distant Era Love at the First Sight in the Wildness At the End of the Summer LOST SPIRIT Dog Fight Porco E Bella – Ending The Time of the Cherries Once in a While, Let’s Talk About the Old Days.