Kaze Tachinu
The Wind Rises • 風立ちぬ
Movie · 2013 · 1 eps · Finished · Score 8.0
Genres: Drama, Romance
Themes: Aviation, Historical, Work, Biographical, Male Protagonist, War, Primarily Adult Cast, Heterosexual, Marriage
Studios: Studio Ghibli
Synopsis
Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.
Voice Actors
- Hideaki Anno as Jirou Horikoshi
- Kaichi Kaburagi as Jirou Horikoshi
- Miori Takimoto as Nahoko Satomi
- Mayu Iino as Nahoko Satomi
- Mirai Shida as Kayo Horikoshi
- Maki Shinta as Kayo Horikoshi
- Steve Alpert as Hans Castorp
- Mansai Nomura II as Caproni
- Jun Kunimura as Hattori
- Hidetoshi Nishijima as Kirou Honjou
- Masahiko Nishimura as Kurokawa
- Morio Kazama as Satomi
- Keiko Takeshita as Jirou no Haha
- Haruka Shibuya as Kinu
- Shinobu Ootake as Kurokawa-fujin