Original lines: The wind blows and the wind blows, and the life hangs in the balance.
Source: "The Wind Rises"
"The Wind Rises" (English: THE WIND RISES) is an animated film adapted from the comic book of the same name by director and scriptwriter Hayao Miyazaki. The film was released in Japan on July 20, 2013. The film tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, the developer of the Japanese Zero fighter jet, when he was young.
Most of Miyazaki's works are filled with fantasy elements such as flying in the sky on a broomstick and fish roe coming from the sea. But this time in the film, there are no magical magic and no monsters. Jiro Horikoshi is the actual person who designed Zero War in World War II.
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"The Wind Rises" plot synopsis:
The period from Taisho to Showa, the turmoil in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s Unrest, poverty and disease, coupled with a sluggish economy and the devastating Great Kanto Earthquake, have made the people living on this island panic all day long. As the war approaches, the future of young people becomes increasingly confusing and uncertain.
Jiro Horikoshi (dubbed by Hideaki Anno), who has been keenly interested in airplanes since childhood, established a friendship across time and space with the Italian aircraft designer Caproni (dubbed by Nomura Mansai) whom he admired. , and draw courage and inspiration from each other. He vowed to design and build beautiful airplanes, and when he grew up, he was admitted to a university in Tokyo to study aeronautical engineering.
After that, he went to Germany to study. With his aviation skills, Erlang became a fighter designer. The classic model Seventh Test Ship Fighter (Type 96 Ship Fighter) was Leave behind the crystallization of his wisdom. But during a test flight, his plane crashed unexpectedly. The devastated Jiro went to Karuizawa in Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Prefecture for recuperation. Unexpectedly, he met the love of his life there.
Even if there is a strong wind, never give up in life. Her name is Nahoko (voiced by Miori Takimoto), and she had a relationship with Jiro on September 1, 1923 (during the Great Kanto Earthquake ten years ago in Japan). The two fell in love at first sight and agreed to stay together for life. However, Naoko suffered from tuberculosis, which was considered a terminal disease at the time, and the road ahead was dark.
But Erlang could never give up his dream of building a beautiful aircraft, and Erlang once again devoted himself to the design of the Zero fighter. On the other hand, Naoko, who knows she has only a few days left, sneaks out of the nursing home and runs towards her lover Jiro.
In turbulent times, limited life, the love of young men and women fluttering like a candle in the wind?
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