Studio Ghibli classics hit the radio. ‘Kaze Tachinu’ (‘The Wind Rises’) receives a radio soap opera adaptation in Japan.
The announcement was published this Monday through a press release that replied the Natalie Comic page, in which the details of this production that takes us directly to the Second World War are revealed.
Adapted to a two-person drama, ‘Kaze Tachinu’ will be available on August 5 with the TBS Radio team for its production and hosts Takaoki Yamamoto and Reina Minagawa as the leads.
Yamamoto will play the protagonist, the designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane, Jiro Horikoshi, while Minagawa plays his wife, Nahoko Satomi.
Screenwriter Keiko Niwa, who co-wrote several Ghibli titles and recently adapted ‘Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä’ (‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’) will adapt the story this time around.
Sinopsis de Kaze Tachinu
Although Jirou Horikoshi’s myopia prevents him from becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at the Imperial University of Tokyo with one simple purpose: to design and build airplanes like his hero, the Italian aeronautical pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a servant who cares for the family of a young woman named Naoko Satomi; This disastrous event marks the beginning of more than two decades of social unrest that led to the eventual surrender of Japan in World War II.
For Jirou, the years leading up to the production of his infamous Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter jet will put every fiber of his being to the test. His many travels and life experiences only push him forward, even as he realizes both the role of his creations in the war and the harsh realities of his personal life. As time passes, you are faced with an impossible question: at what price do you pursue your beautiful dream?
