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Synopsis. In 1918, Jiro Horikoshi is a young Japanese boy growing up with his mother and young sister. Jiro has very poor eyesight (hence his Coke bottle style glasses), which gets in the way of his dream to become a pilot. He spends much of his time reading aviation magazines and fending younger kids off from bullies at school.
May 17, 2018 · The Wind Rises. In 1918, a young Jiro Horikoshi longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. He reads about the famous Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, and dreams about him that night. In the dream, Caproni tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is better than flying ...
Feb 21, 2014 · Overview. A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane. Hayao Miyazaki. Tatsuo Hori.
The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ , Kaze Tachinu) is the 19th animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI and distributed by Toho. It was released on July 20, 2013, in Japan and February 21, 2014, in America. It is based on the serialized manga of the same name, written and illustrated by Miyazaki on Model Graphix magazine and Tatsuo Hori's ...
The Wind Rises is 27795 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 25230 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru but less popular than Going for Gold.
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May 30, 2020 · Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 Studio Ghibli film, The Wind Rises, is based on the true story of Jiro Horikoshi, a Japanese aviation engineer behind World War II’s Zero warplane. But Miyazaki diverts ...
