Miyazaki's Metaphysics: Some Observations on the Wind Rises

117 Pages Posted: 4 Feb 2020

Date Written: July 20, 2016

Abstract

In The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki weaves various modes of experience in depicting the somewhat fictionalized life of Jiro Horikoshi, a Japanese aeronautical engineer who designed fighter planes for World War II. Horikoshi finds his vocation through ‘dreamtime’ encounters with Gianni Caproni and courts his wife with paper airplanes. The film opposes the wind and chance with mechanism and design. Horikoshi’s attachment to his wife, on the one hand, and to his vocation on the other, both bind him to Japan while at the same time allowing him to separate himself, at least mentally, from the imperial state.

Keywords: film, animation, anime, Miyazaki

Suggested Citation

Benzon, William L., Miyazaki's Metaphysics: Some Observations on the Wind Rises (July 20, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2812252 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2812252

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