El: Viento Se Levanta

Unlike most Studio Ghibli films that rely on magic, this work is , using history as its primary canvas.

The central theme of the film is the paradox of the "cursed dream". Jiro Horikoshi, a fictionalized version of the real-life engineer who designed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, is driven by a pure, aesthetic passion for creating "beautiful airplanes". However, this pursuit is inextricably linked to the , as his masterpieces are ultimately used as tools of mass destruction. El Viento Se Levanta

: Miyazaki mirrored Jiro’s life with his own. His father ran a company that manufactured components for the Zero fighter, and his mother, like Jiro's wife Naoko, suffered from tuberculosis. Symbolism of the Wind Unlike most Studio Ghibli films that rely on