Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso is a fairy tale without a fairy-tale
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Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature Porco Rosso, now on HBO Max and global Netflix accounts, focuses on an Italian bounty hunter who has been turned into an anthropomorphic pig. The Studio Ghibli movie balances fairy-tale trappings with an unusually realistic setting, and ends in an unconventional, thoughtful way.
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Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso is a fairy tale without a fairy-tale
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5 Porco Rosso (1992) dir. Hayao Miyazaki - by Kyubin Kim
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Porco Rosso - Wikipedia
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