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The Wind Rises

Kaze Tachinu / Det Blåser upp en Vind / El Viento se Levanta / Le vent se lève / Si Alza il Vento / Szél támad / Vidas ao vento / Vinden Stiger / Vindurinn Rís / Wie der Wind sich hebt / Zrywa się wiatr

Source: Manga
Format: Movie
Studios: Studio Ghibli
Parution Date: 2013-07-20
Status: Finished
Number of Episodes: 1
Genres: Drama Romance
Themes: Aviation Biographical Drawing Foreign Heterosexual Historical Male Protagonist Marriage Natural Disaster Primarily Adult Cast Time Skip Tragedy Trains War Work

Summary

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.