The song “When the Cherries Ripen,” sung by Gina in Porco Rosso, is a song about the Paris Commune of 1871. Fifty years later, Gina sings this beautiful history to everyone. The era of Porco Rosso was around 1929–1930, when war was about to begin again, and the years Gina lived through afterward are chronicled in an important song that Tokiko Kato has been singing.