![]() ![]() Jiro leaves for the test flight of his new prototype aircraft, the Mitsubishi A5M. Though Naoko's health deteriorates, she and Jiro enjoy their time together. Jiro's sister Kayo, a doctor, warns Jiro that his marriage to Naoko will end tragically as tuberculosis is incurable. Following a lung hemorrhage, Naoko recovers in a mountain sanatorium but cannot bear being apart from Jiro and returns to marry him. ![]() Wanted in connection with Castorp, Jiro hides at his supervisor's home while he works on a new navy project. Castorp assists in the romance before fleeing arrest by the Japanese secret police. However, Naoko has tuberculosis and wants to wait until she recovers to marry. Later, Jiro asks Naoko's father for his blessing to marry her, and the two are engaged. Hans Castorp, a German visitor privately critical of the Nazi regime, tells Jiro, who intends to visit Dessau, that Junkers is in trouble for fighting Nazism and that Germany will go to war again and must be stopped. Disappointed, he goes to a summer resort in Karuizawa to rest, where he meets Naoko again. In early 1932, Jiro is promoted to chief designer for a fighter plane competition sponsored by the Imperial Navy, but his design, the Mitsubishi 1MF10, fails testing in 1933 and is rejected. Jiro dreams again of Caproni, who tells him that the world is better for the beauty of planes, even if humankind might put them to terrible purposes. Dispirited about what he perceives as the backwardness of Japanese technology, Jiro is sent with Honjo to the Weimar Republic in 1929 to carry out technical research and obtain a production license for a Junkers G.38 aircraft. During a test, it breaks apart in midair and is rejected. ![]() In 1925, Jiro graduates with his friend Kiro Honjo and both are employed at aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi, assigned to design a fighter plane, the Mitsubishi 1MF9, for the Imperial Army. When the Great Kantō earthquake hits, Naoko's maid's leg is broken and Jiro carries her to Naoko's family, leaving without giving his name. Seven years later after World War I ended, Jiro is traveling by train to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University and meets a young girl, Naoko Satomi, traveling with her maid. One night, he dreams of his idol, the Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, who tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is better than flying them. In 1916, a young Jiro Horikoshi longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. It was critically acclaimed and nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan in 2013. It was the final film directed by Miyazaki, released just before the public announcement of his intention to retire in September 2013. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name, which itself combines elements from two unrelated sources Tatsuo Hori's 1937 semi-autobiographical novel The Wind Has Risen and the life of Jiro Horikoshi. 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. It was released in Japan on 20 July 2013, and in North America by Touchstone Pictures on 21 February 2014. "The Wind Has Risen") is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI and distributed by Toho. The Wind Rises ( Japanese: 風立ちぬ, Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu, lit.
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