Which begs the question of why we, the audience, should care.
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There is some tentative questioning, but he still plunges into the assignment with relentless zeal even though he knows full well what the end result will be. Does the fact that it’s going to be used as a weapon of war represent a moral dilemma for him? Not much of one, it turns out.
Horikoshi? He’s given the assignment and he follows through on it. So, what’s the challenge in THE WIND RISES? What’s at stake for Mr. Since it’s the 1930s and Japan is already waging war on China (something barely hinted at in the film), it’s no surprise that Jiro’s plane will be a weapon of war. In THE WIND RISES, Miyazaki’s latest film and his purported final directorial effort, the protagonist is Jiro Horikoshi, a young engineer who lives, breathes, and sleeps airplanes and, after college graduation, goes to work for Mitsubishi Industries and, not surprisingly, gets the opportunity to design a plane of his own. There were hints of love stories in some of these films, but romance was never a priority. The hero (or, more often, the heroine) was involved in a life-or-death struggle (NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND, CASTLE IN THE SKY, PRINCESS MONONOKE) or faced some coming-of-age challenge that was of immense importance to their maturation (MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE, SPIRITED AWAY). In every film by Hayao Miyazaki up to THE WIND RISES, there was something at stake.
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