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It was released in Japan on 20 July 2013 by Toho, and in North America by Touchstone Pictures on 21 February 2014. The Wind Rises is a fictionalised biographical film of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II.
The Wind Rises was released in Japan on July 20, 2013, to 454 screens nationwide and in within two days, from July 20 and 21, it earned 960,880,000 yen in the box office revenue. Its audience mobilization was 747,451, making it one of the most popular films of the year.
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 ...
- Chris Plante
Jan 23, 2014 · The Wind Rises will be in US theaters on February 21st. Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises is a lot of things. It's the final feature-length film from one of the all-time greats of Japanese animation ...
2013. PG-13. 2h 6m. IMDb RATING. 7.8 /10. 98K. YOUR RATING. Rate. POPULARITY. 2,481. 1,001. Play trailer 2:21. 17 Videos. 99+ Photos. Animation Biography Drama. Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer.
- Hayao Miyazaki
- 2 min
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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.
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.
