Players can also choose to pilot some of the most iconic American and
Japanese fighter planes from the army or navy's aviation units, while completing quests that take them through various historical battles such as Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal.
However, this new story, a biography of the man who designed some of
the Japanese fighter planes used during World War II, clearly doesn't sound like much of a family film in the way that Totoro or last year's The Secret World of Arrietty are.
The Japanese animation power - house, Studio Ghibli, proudly presents The Wind Rises, an animated biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed
Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
His childhood beatings and subsequent rigorous training to become an Olympic - quality distance runner are followed by the six weeks of trying to survive at sea on the occasional raw fish while undergoing attacks by sharks and
Japanese fighter planes.
One sequence, in particular, involves
a Japanese fighter plane and a swarm of sharks, and it is masterfully directed for maximum suspense.
Looks like
a Japanese fighter plane from WWII.
Not exact matches
I'll never forget the
Japanese - American vet who grew teary as he described the day that, unknowingly, he watched his own brother — an airman for the
Japanese Empire — being shot down in a
fighter plane overhead.
Most recently he has focused on
fighter -
planes, creating replicas of stylish World War II mainstays like the American P - 51, P - 38 and Corsair, the British Spitfire, the German Messerschmitt and Stuka, and the
Japanese Zero.