The Wind Rises: Look at the Stars
The poignant Studio Ghibli film The Wind Rises follows the life of a young Japanese airplane designer, Jiro Horikoshi. His aspiration to create exquisite flying machines for their own sake collides with their intended destiny as war machines. Despite the fact that Jiro pours his youthful creativity into successive models of fighter planes, Japan loses the war, and the culmination of his work…