Sentences with phrase «designed fighter planes»

Jiro, who works in the aviation division of Mitsubishi, is an artist who dreams of flight (his eyesight prevents him from becoming a pilot) and channels his love into creating the next generation of airplanes, but is trapped in a military culture that demands he design a fighter plane.

Not exact matches

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.

The film's hero is partially based on Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero fighter plane that figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In Jiro's case, these beautiful things — most notably his design for the Zero fighter plane, which became one of Japan's most effective weapons in World War II — were requisitioned as implements of death, an irony that suffuses every frame of this dark and difficult film, which, it should be stressed, is not at all for young children.

Next is «The Wind Rises,» Miyazaki's latest tale which takes a slight diversion from his more whimsical fantasy films to tell the real - life story Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero fighter plane that was used during World War II, and infamously during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

It was initially a spray designed to protect fighter planes from salty sea spray.

«Just like many modern fighter planes are designed to be unstable so that they are more maneuverable, the Strida seems a but hard to control at first.

He says Americans were eager to embrace a «modernistic» design because they were inspired by the functional, unsentimental designs of modern armored tanks and jet fighter planes that helped win the war.