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Jiro Horikoshi was born near the city of Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1903.Horikoshi graduated from the newly established Aviation Laboratory (Kōkū Kenkyūjo) within the Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo, [1] and started his career in Mitsubishi Internal Combustion Engine Company Limited, which later became Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagoya Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.
In 1918, a young Jiro Horikoshi longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. Inspired by a magazine, he begins having recurring dreams of flying with his idol, Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, aboard the Caproni Ca.60. Caproni tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is ...
In the midst of his grief, he encounters a gray heron that whisks him away to a magical realm. ... The Wind Rises tells the slightly fictionalized tale of the life of Jiro Horikoshi — designer ...
Miyazaki published the manga series illustrating the life of Jiro Horikoshi, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (later adapted into his film of the same name), in Model Graphix from April 2009 to January 2010 issues as a continuation of the Delusional Notes series.
The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ) (2013) – Japanese animated historical drama film about Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II [143]
The Wind Rises is a fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A5M and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film is adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name, which was in turn loosely based on the 1937 short story The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori .
The film is a fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, a Japanese engineer who designed various warplanes during World War II, including the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. [3] [4] It was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name. [2]
Some of his most widely known works are his animated films created during his time with Studio Ghibli, including Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), The Wind Rises (2013) and The Boy and the Heron (2023). [1]