A short review of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises

By The Eva Monkey on Monday, March 10th, 2014 in Reviews.

As a boy, Jiro dreamed of flying, however due to his near-sightedness, he would never be a pilot.  He resolved that if he couldn’t fly planes, he would design them instead.  Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises tells the fictionalized story of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed a number of Japanese fighter planes during World War II. […]