In fact war is used as a clever back drop, playing up the young engineers’ dreams and the woman he falls in love with and eventually loses to illness. But watching this particular movie, one could easily get carried away by other themes that bubble to the surface, cleverly keeping the war at bay. Historians and pundits will mostly agree that Japan was on the wrong side of World War II, the era in which the film was set. The reason being, some feel that Miyazaki and his studio have white washed war and painted Japan in a less positive way. The movie although commercially successful as gotten some very tough criticism from inside Japan.
The movie was made by Japan’s top animation studio, ‘Studio Ghibli’ and was directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. A few weeks back I watched The wind rises, a beautiful animated story set in war time Japan, telling the tale of a young Japanese engineer whose dream was to create the perfect war time plane.
