The Wind Rises

Hisaichi Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" is an elegiac tribute to the visionary engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose fascination with flight propels him through a career marked by the creation of the iconic A6M Zero fighter plane during World War II. The film weaves Jiro's dreams and ambitions with the realities of a turbulent era, capturing the ethereal beauty of aviation and the bittersweet nature of technological advancement.