The Wind Rises

風立ちぬ

Catalog score

★ 8.0 / 10· Favourites: 3,747

Type

Movie

Episodes

1 / 1

Genres

Drama, Romance

Themes / tags

Aviation, Historical, Work, Biographical, Male Protagonist, Tragedy, Time Skip, War, Primarily Adult Cast, Heterosexual, Marriage, Natural Disaster

Source

Manga

Status

Finished

Release

20 July 2013

Season

Summer 2013

Duration

126 min/ep

Studio

Studio Ghibli

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.