Miyazaki stubbornly stands on what takes off for children – to inspire them, to instill decisiveness and faith in them. But this film is about the air designer Dziro Horikosi.
Hayao Miyazaki, the famous master of Japanese animation. His cartoons “Princess Mononoka”, “Witch Service Service”, “Walking Castle” were a huge success in the world, and the film “Safe Ghosts” was awarded the main
prize of the Berlin film festival and Oscar (2003).
… and for adults. Miyazaki stubbornly stands on what takes off for children – to inspire them, to instill decisiveness and faith in them. But this film is about the air designer Dziro Horikosi. About how he grew up in a provincial town in a god of a forgotten outskirts of the country, how in childhood his idol was Aviator Gianni Kapropony. How he trained in fascist Germany, met Hugo Junkers and created the most deadly fighter of the Second World War – A6M Zero. How he survived the great love and death of his wife and the main milestones of the latest Japanese history – the great earthquake of Canto and defeat in the war … This is a biographical cartoon about a man who dreamed of a flight, which overcame his own unusual (poor vision), and the features of his country, not at allencouraging flight in its metaphorical sense. That is, this time Miyazaki inspires overcoming adults too – without changing either the usual touching of their heroes, nor the naive expressiveness of the image.
… and for the rest of the world. Miyazaki works in conservative Japanese drawn animation, but is open to the world. His young Dziro on the way from the sleepy Fujioki to Tokyo reads a collection of French poetry, where Valerie’s lines finds the lines of the field: “The wind is stronger. So – live first!”His meeting with the artisan wife takes place in a mountain tuberculosis sanatorium, which reminds of Mann’s” magic grief “and” under the canopy of girls in color “. But the most interesting here is that the Second World War is not in the film, but there are only smoking ruins after. The “wind is strong” clearly offers the world a version of the fate of Japan – a country that has survived in the twentieth century and insight and clouding of national mind.
… and music. Incredible music, full of allusions for European cinema of the 30-50s, created for “Wind …” Jo Hisaisi. He also wrote for the films of Takeesi Kitano, but it was precisely for the Ghibli studio Miyazaki since 1983, from “Navsikai from the Valley of the Winds”, regularly creates real masterpieces.