Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
- japan
- airplane
- flying
- world war ii
- earthquake
- biography
- great depression
- pacific war
- love
- tuberculosis
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Hideaki Anno
Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Honjô (voice)
Miori Takimoto
Naoko Satomi (voice)
Masahiko Nishimura
Kurokawa (voice)
- Stephen Alpert — Castorp (voice)
- Mansai Nomura — Giovanni Battista (voice)
- Jun Kunimura — Hattori (voice)
- Mirai Shida — Kayo Horikoshi (voice)
- Shinobu Otake — Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)
- Morio Kazama — Satomi (voice)
- Keiko Takeshita — Jirô's mother (voice)
- Sascha — German Security Guard / Flight Engineer (voice)
- Kaichi Kaburagi — Young Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
- Maki Shinta — Young Kayo Horikoshi (voice)
- Directed
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Written
- Hayao Miyazaki
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 3,463 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, The Walt Disney Company (Japan), d-rights
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
