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It tells a story about a young Japanese man named Jiro
Horikoshi, and his dream is to build a beautiful and magnificent airplane.
Jiro is about to ride an airplane on his roof and explores
the beautiful area around. He sees a giant airplane carrying lots of bombs.
Jiro’s plane gets crashed and he’s falling. Then, he wakes up from his dream.
Jiro is a boy with thick glasses as he has problems with his
eyesight, which forbids him from becoming a pilot.
He admires a famous Italian aeronautical designer with impressive
mustaches, Giovanni Caproni. Caproni often comes to Jiro’s dreams and talks a
lot about airplanes and stuff, and encourages him to keep pursuing his dreams.
Jiro grows up to be a young man and is riding a steam train.
He’s about to leave the train, sitting outside while reading a book. When the
wind blows so suddenly, his hat gets blown off, and a girl from the next car
catches the hat.
The train is supposed to arrive at the train station, but
there’s a huge earthquake that stops the train and the passengers jump out of
the train in panic. The girl who catches Jiro’s hat is with her maid, Kinu.
Unfortunately, Kinu breaks her leg and can’t walk on her own.
So, Jiro needs to carry her to a safe place for a while. As they’re walking,
they look around and see that the earthquake has caused huge fires everywhere
as thick and dark smoke covers the skies.
The girl and Kinu are heading Ueno and Jiro wants to go to
his University so they can come along while looking for help and leaving Kinu
there to rest. After the help comes, Jiro leaves without telling his name to
those people.
Two Years Passes
Jiro has a college friend named Honjo who shares the same
dreams as his. When Jiro’s working on his sketch in the class, a delivery
package comes. It’s from the girl he has saved. Jiro uses his ruler for aiding
Kinu’s leg.
When Jiro goes back to where he stays, he gets a visitor and
thinks it is the girl he meets on the train. It turns out to be his younger
sister, kayo. She comes to pay a visit as Jiro rarely comes home.
Jiro works for an airplane company in Nagoya, Japan for the
Falcon Project under the command of Mr. Kurokawa, a petite man with a middle
part hairstyle. The project is a failure and the company is urged to give the
contract to its competing company.
The company then decides to send Jiro to Germany to study more
about the German Junker’s works. Jiro succeeds in obtaining the essential
knowledge from Germans and he returns to his country.
A Few Years Later
The Imperial Japanese Navy chooses him to lead a special
project. Again, the project doesn’t go well, and it makes him feel disappointed.
The company sends Jiro to a resort in order to make him free from the
disappointment.
Jiro is walking on a land when the wind strongly rises in a
sudden and blows away a parasol owned by a girl who’s painting up on a hill. Jiro
catches it with all his might and gives it back to the girl.
Jiro then comes to meet the girl as she has something to
say. It turns that she’s the same girl, Naoko, he helped when there was a
deadly earthquake a long time ago. They introduce themselves to each other, and
the rain starts to fall.
They fall in love and plan on tying the knot. Apparently, Naoko
has been ill due to tuberculosis, the same life-threatening disease that takes
her mom’s life away. Naoko asks Jiro to wait before marrying her until she gets
better.
Jiro receives a
telegram that says Naoko’s health deteriorates. Naoko has got lung hemorrhage that
makes Jiro worry to death. He rushes out to Naoko’s place to meet her. Naoko
says you’ll get the same disease if you with me but Jiro couldn’t care less.
As Naoko’s desire to live with Jiro grows bigger, she
decides to go to a sanatorium to get a treatment for quite a long time.
Naoko knows that her condition isn’t getting better and
decides to visit Jiro in Nagoya. They get married and spend a happy life
together although it’s sort. Jiro’s sister who has finished medical school tells
her brother that Naoko may not live that long.
Naoko decides to leave Jiro as she doesn’t want to see her
during her last moment while battling with the diseases.
Jiro finally manages to create a durable jet fighter and the
test flight works very well. He can even make a record as the plane is able to
fly at the speed of 240 knots.
But there’s the strong wind that blows towards him and gives
him an unpleasant feeling. Jiro feels that he wouldn’t be able to see Naoko
again.
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