Porco Rosso, a human with the face of a pig, is an ace pilot. Instead of flying for the Italian Air Force, the cool, lonely macho man prefers to earn his money as a bounty hunter and chase off air pirates, because "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist". For a duel with an American airman, he has to have his red plane overhauled - under the direction of a cheeky 17-year-old, of all people, who natura...

The year is 2029 and technology and surgery are now so advanced that many people are having parts of their bodies augmented or replaced with artificial components in order to improve certain abilities and acquire new ones. Even the brain can be replaced by a cyberbrain, which can then be fed with digital data. Packaged in a biocapsule, the shell, each cyborg contains human brain cells with the gho...