Kaze tachinu (original title)
- Status: Completed
- Score: 7.8/10
- Director: Hayao Miyazaki
- Country: Japan
- Year: 2013
- Duration: 126 min
- Genres: Animation,Biography,Drama,History,Romance,War,
- Production:
A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo.
Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Mansai Nomura, Mirai Shida, Morio Kazama, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Jun Kunimura, Shinobu Ôtake, Keiko Takeshita, John Krasinski, Martin Short,