![]() ![]() The essence of this can be found in a quote by Horikoshi that inspired Miyazaki to make the film: “All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.” The real Horikoshi was obviously an aeronautical engineer in WWII who, as a young man, wanted to make the very best aircraft he could. Rather, he’s trying to illuminate what he sees as a deep problem in modern industrial society. It’s been criticized in some quarters for ‘romanticizing’ the life of the real Jiro Horikoshi, but it’s important to note that Miyazaki is not attempting to make a biographical film here. is a singularly unique film among his body of work, very much the culmination of his long career. So as the world plunges into war, Jiro struggles to realize his dream of building a beautiful airplane, sacrificing everything but his love for Naoko to do the very best job he can. This matters not to Jiro-as with his work, he commits to her fully. Naoko has never forgotten Jiro and the two quickly fall in love, but not before she reveals that she has tuberculosis. Then one day while on retreat, Jiro encounters Naoko once more, now a beautiful young women. As Caproni says to Jiro in his dreams: “I prefer a world with pyramids in it.” So when, upon his return, Jiro is tasked with leading a design team to build a new fighter plane for the Japanese Navy, he commits to give the project his all. But while he knows that the aircraft he’s developing are “cursed dreams” destined to be used in war, he perseveres. Jiro and Kiro are soon sent to Germany to study aircraft technology, where they encounter much suspicion and witness a Gestapo raid. ![]() Jiro dives right in and quickly proves his value with hard work and innovative thinking. As the Japanese economy falters in the late 1920s, Jiro and his friend Kiro are hired by Mitsubishi to work on the company’s aircraft design teams. In its aftermath, he meets a young girl named Naoko, and ends up helping her (and her injured maid) through the devastation back to her family. Several years later, Jiro is riding the train back to his studies at Tokyo Imperial University when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. Inspired by tales of the great Giovanni Caproni in borrowed aviation magazines, Jiro decides that he’s going to become an aeronautical engineer. ![]() ![]() As a young boy living in Japan in 1916, Jiro dreams of beautiful airplanes. ![]()
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