• Shrike502
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    2 years ago

    Didn’t he make a movie about that engineer who made warplanes for Imperial Japan during the war? I haven’t seen it, mind you, but it seems like a strange move, given the apparent anti-war message in at least some of his other works

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      2 years ago

      Yes, but he also seems to have an obsession with old airplanes in general. He cofounded studio ghibli, which is the name of an italian airplane that was at least partially shown in his other movie “porco rosso”. The movie you are talking about, “the wind rises” has some anti-war sentiment, specially in the dream sequences, when the protagonist struggles to justify his line of work knowing the impacts of it.