A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
japan
airplane
flying
world war ii
earthquake
biography
great depression
pacific war
love
tuberculosis
adult animation
anime
meiji period
taisho period
great kantō earthquake
Rank
#13 in 2013·#607 overall
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Cast
Hideaki Anno
Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Honjô (voice)
Miori Takimoto
Naoko Satomi (voice)
Masahiko Nishimura
Kurokawa (voice)
Stephen Alpert
Castorp (voice)
Mansai Nomura
Giovanni Battista (voice)
Jun Kunimura
Hattori (voice)
Mirai Shida
Kayo Horikoshi (voice)
Shinobu Otake
Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)
Morio Kazama
Satomi (voice)
Keiko Takeshita
Jirô's mother (voice)
Sascha
German Security Guard / Flight Engineer (voice)
Crew
Hayao Miyazaki
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Screenplay
Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer
Takeshi Seyama
Editor
Toshio Suzuki
Producer
Koji Hoshino
Executive Producer
Yoshimi Itazu
Key Animation
Kitaro Kosaka
Character Designer
Kitaro Kosaka
Animation Director
Katsuya Kondo
Key Animation
Akihiko Yamashita
Key Animation
Hayao Miyazaki
Comic Book
Popular Reviews
3438 reviews
Madison Greenlee
10.0★ · 06/23/26
When I found out this was all lowkey real halfway through the movie, I started preparing to have my heart broken. I’m now the saddest girl in the world.
When I found out this was all lowkey real halfway through the movie, I started preparing to have my heart broken. I’m now the saddest girl in the world.
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Stella Scroggins
10.0★ · 04/01/26
loving the poor eyesight representation 🩷
loving the poor eyesight representation 🩷
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CD112
10.0★ · 03/21/26
a beautifully elegant sprawling industrial epic that has this looming through line of dread that is so subtle it creeps up on you. this is now tied with mononoke as my favorite ghibli film and hope it gets a proper imax release. i understand why you cried miyazaki i did as well.
a beautifully elegant sprawling industrial epic that has this looming through line of dread that is so subtle it creeps up on you. this is now tied with mononoke as my favorite ghibli film and hope it gets a proper imax release. i understand why you cried miyazaki i did as well.
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Weesam
9.9★ · 03/13/25
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Sophia
10.0★ · 06/20/26
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through."
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through."
