The Wind Rises

In Japanese animation master Miyazaki’s final film, Jiro dreams of flying and designing airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers, creating beautiful machines which are put to deadly use. Film critic David Ehrlich called the film, “Perhaps the greatest animated film ever made… a devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty.”