Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises considers a man who saw the beauty in war.
by Ben Sachs
With The Wind Rises, animator Hayao Miyazaki paints an empathetic portrait of Jiro Horikoshi, the aeronautical engineer who designed many of the fighter planes used by the Japanese military during World War II. The film is one of the most rapturously beautiful that Miyazaki has made, and all the more unsettling because of it.…[ Read more ]