Weekly Watches: July 30, 2025
Sharing Our Team's Recent Discoveries: Weekly Watches with 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See
The Wind Rises (2013)
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After a long stint of rewatches, my wife finally got to show me something fresh. She discovered Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki last year when she was sick, and surpassed me quite handily in the number of Ghibli films watched. Now she is catching me up on things, and we settled on watching The Wind Rises, which I am delighted to say is some of the best that Miyazaki has ever made.
The Wind Rises is the pseudo-biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the famed Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane from WW2. The Japanese Zero was a technological marvel in aviation at the time. It was not surpassed in air dominance in the Pacific theater until the introduction of the Grumman Hellcat in 1943. While we have become accustomed to the stories of Allied inventions and the people behind them, such as The Imitation Game’s The Bombe or Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb, it is highly unusual that we get to see the behind-the-scenes of the Axis powers' creative process.
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